NELSON PIONEER DEAD
MR. WILLIAM T. BOND 70 YEARS IN DOMINION (Per Press Association.) NELSON, this day. The deatli has occurred of Mr. William Thornton Bond, in his ninety-third year, a greatly respected resident ot Nelson since the ’sixties. For many years he was one of the proprietors ot the Colonist.
He was born in Lancaster, England, and when a few weeks old was taken by his parents to the West Indies, where his father had a sugar plantation. Both parents died of yellow fever. When he was 10 years of age he returned to Lancaster and was educated at Lancaster Grammar School. He served his apprenticeship on the Lancaster Guardian. In 1862 he came to New Zealand on the ship Electra, landing at Nelson the following year. He took an active interest in all movements for the betterment of the people, and had been a member of the Foresters Lodge since 1871. Mr. Percy Bond, managing director of the Hawera Star, is a son, and his other son was the late Mr. J. 11. C. Bond, for many years Dominion superintendent of tho New Zealand Shipping Company.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18192, 13 September 1933, Page 7
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