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The site of the new Armagh Post Office, formerly the South Island Motors building, and other adjoining property in Oxford Terrace was once owned by William Henry Mortlock, who came to New Zealand from Meldreth, near Cambridge, in the Zambesi, in 1813.
He had been a pupil at Christ’s Hospital—and the Mortlock family, well known in Christchurch as supporters of the High School Old Boys Rugby Football Club, still has his leather-bound Bible, presented to him by the governor of Christ’s Hospital in 1855. William Mortlock’s house was on the actual site of the Armagh Post Office, from which spot he used to catch whitebait in the Avon River. William Mortlock’s son, the late Mr J. W. Mortlock, who in recent years ran a carrying business in Christchurch, was born there in 1875—and William Mortlock's wife died there, in childbirth, in 1878. She and her infant child, Frederick Mortlock, are buried in the old Barbadoes Street cemetery.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31863, 16 December 1968, Page 22
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