MAKERS OF OTAGO.
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PIONEERS OF THE PROVINCE Written for the Otago Daily Times. By Condor. XXXIX.—WALTER HENRY PEARSON, 1832-1911. Walter Henry Pearson, who was associated most of his life with the province of Southland, came to live in Dunedin after his retirement, and finally spent Jiis last few years in Hawke’s Bay. Born at Mangapury, in India, in 1832, Pearson was the son of Mr John Thomas Pearson and the grandson of the Advocate-general of the Supreme Court of Judicature in Bengal. Like all Anglo-Indian boys, he went to England for his education, and returned to India in 1849. When in his twentieth year he went from India to Australia, where he lived until 1855, .when he sailed in the little schooner Caledonia for Port Chalmers. .He arrived here on March 30, 1855.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 10
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