GOLDEN WEDDING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3829, 2 August 1927, Page 66

GOLDEN WEDDING.

MR AND MRS GEORGE WOOD. The golden wedding of Mr and Mrs George Wood, of Birkdale. was the occasion of a reunion of members of the family on July 24. The son of a Western Australian farmer. Mr Mood engaged in farming shortly after arrival in Dunedin in 1874, taking nn a holding of 200 acres at Chatton, in Southland. Snbsennent to his marriage m 1877 Isays the New Zealand Herald) this area was increased by the addition of farm to farm, until it aggregated 1800 acres. Later. Mr Wood, in conjunction with Mr A. A MncGibbon. carried on nn auctioneering business at Gore for five years. He was a member of the Borough

Council and belonged to the Gore Rifle Volunteers. He won the company’s gold medal and cup for rifle shooting, also the silver medal for the best shot in the Southland district, and the gold medal for the best shot in the South Island. Returning to the land. ’Mr Wood purchased 450 acres at Wendon, and subsequently 1000 acres. Ten years later he sold the property in order to go to the. North Island, purchasing 1000 acres at Awahuri, near Feilding. Disposing of this two years later, he started a drapery business at Feilding, but soon went back to the land, ultimately settling at Te Arolia West, where he still has farms. Mrs Wood was born at Green Island, near Dunedin, her father being the late Mr John Johnston, of Kaihiku. There is one son, Mr W. G. Wood, of Birkdale, and six daughters, Mesdames William Stevenson, of Wendon, Robert Swan, of Hawera, A. A. Garvey, of Hamilton, Norman MTndoe, of Hamilton, Madam Annie Morris, of Auckland, aind Miss J. Wood, of Birkdale.