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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Taranaki, Hawke's Bay & Wellington Provincial Districts]

Old Colonist — Mr. John Herman Seifert

Old Colonist.

Mr. John Herman Seifert was born in the year 1831, at Gassnitz, Saxe-Altenborg, Germany. He was educated in the town of his birth, and apprenticed to the cabinet-making trade, which he subsequently followed in London. In the year 1858 he emigrated to New Zealand in the ship “Zealandia,” and after working at his trade for a short time he followed farming pursuits on Kaiapol Island, North Canterbury. Later he removed to North Loburn, where he took up a farm, and subsequently, in conjunction with two sons, first started the flax-milling industry at Mt. Thomas. Soon afterwards, however, the flax market declined and Mr. Seifert, senior, was chiefly engaged in farming until he retired to live in Rangiora. He married Miss Jane Brown, who came to New Zealand in the ship “William Miles,” in the year 1861.