INAUGURAL CALL
Daughter Of Pioneer A daughter of one of the first settlers in the Cheviot district was the first to use the Cheviot automatic exchange after its opening yesterday. She is Miss M. J. Lewis, aged 86, the daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Lewis, who settled at Cheviot after their arrival from Wales. Miss Lewis was the first person called by the Minister of Labour (Mr Shand) after he had opened the exchange. Thomas Lewis worked for William (“Ready Money”) Robinson, who paid cash to the Nelson Provincial Government for part of a vast sheep run he named “Cheviot.” In 1893 the Seddon Government, in which Sir John McKenzie was Minister of Lands, took over “Cheviot" and subdivided it
Mr Lewis got a block of 40 acres from the subdivision and ran it as a dairy farm. The block is now farmed by a nephew.
Mr Lewis’s house was the first to be built in Cheviot, two miles from the township. His daughters still live there. Miss M. J. Lewis said yesterday that she could not recall how long the family had been on the telephone, but knew it was one of the first subscribers.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31987, 14 May 1969, Page 1
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