MR WILLIAM PRATT.

Nelson Evening Mail, 19 October 1905, Page 2

MR WILLIAM PRATT.

Mr William Jhatt. a loaneds*&--wow resident, dtted Si Ohi*istclwnrch on tiie 15lifc inst., at the age of ramdve-3 ap WolMUgJttMi' in 1848, thus btein'g v 6»eTof the earliest settlers oi tfiis province.' Mr Pratt removed to -WellLßtgltxxn io 184$. and tin 1849 hie settled; in Lyttoltoft in a storekeapinig afi* bakery I>usv** ness. tne first that* was est-abMshea: at that .port. In 1854 he removed, to Nelson, where he followed tiie . ■■ pursuit of farming for the eq«iu»8l ; . nine - years. ' ""He returned -tp Caa*terburji in 1863, and putrcfeasseid tfe; , well-fcnowift drapery busiiiess ; jjiowcarried on by Messrs J, Ballaatyne & Co. Mir Pratt .opened fiis promises in Jantaary, 1864, and con.-* 'ducted a large and satisfactory . biusihess- till 1872. He was twice returned as a jnembet of the OhWsrtoEui-ch City Council. He aJW*;. . puolishicd a most interesting V»l-v uroe entitled Colonial Experiences--itn New Zealand by on Old Colo-' . nist," in which hie described tto*early struggles of the Nelson* aiid I CantertouTy settlers. Mr Pratt was married in 1851 to a daughters- !©ff ', Mr James Farmer, of Riwaka, awl left a family of five sons and t'hroo daughters.