UNVEILING OF SIR JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL’S STATUE ON EMPIRE DAY.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 2 June 1906, Page 26

UNVEILING OF SIR JOHN LOGAN CAMPBELL’S STATUE ON EMPIRE DAY.

sir John L. Campbell. MJ)., MJtC.S.. iiom S 9 years of age. is the only son of the late John ( ampbell. Esq.. MJ)., of Edinburgh. and grandson of tin* late Sir .lames Campbell. Baronet, of ern- < hill and Kilhryde. Perthshire, lie was educated in Edinburgh, and took the degree of MJ). at its University, then the first medical school of (he King dom. Having been bitten with the mania which prevailed in the Old Country in 1838-39 for emigrating to Australia, where everyone was to make a fortune in a few years by wool growing, he threw up a commission in the East India Company’s service and sailed from Greenock. Inly. 1839. in (lie ship Palmyra, for Sydney. After a visit to the Bathurst Plains, he gave up the

idea of sheep and cat tle raising and farming in \ustralia. and determined Io try his fortunes in the new colony of Xew Zealand, lie landed at Coromandel. but afterwards came on to the W'aitcinata with his partner. Mr. Wil liam Brown, ami purchased Motu Korea I Brown ’s Island. In December. 1841). Sir .John left the island and pi ch ed his lent in Commercial Bay. Auckland. 'l’he tide then washed the beach where the Post Ollice now stands. The doctor threw aside his profession and started tin* firm of Brown and Camp bell. 'l’he firm purchased at the first town sale (April. 184 1) the allotment on which it has ever inee conducted its business. In 1848. after a nine years’s absence from the Old Country, he left the colony on a visit Home, lie returned to Auckland at the eml of

1850. and in 1851 paid a short business \ isit Io Sa n Eranciseo. In 1855 Sir John entered I he field of polities, lie contested successfully the Superint cndeney of Auckland with Mr. Whitaker, and at the same time was returned at the head of the poll as a member of the House of Itrepresent alives for Auckland, In 1855. also, he started the rifle shoot ,ing and volunteer movement in Auckland, thus inaugurating at I he Antipodes the citizen-soldier movement long before it was begun in England. In 1861 lie again returned to Europe, with the intention of taking a long holiday, which was prolonged to nine years, spent chiefly on the Continent, and notably in Italy. In 1871 he re turned to Auckland, and has resided here ever since.