Talk:George Garland (New Zealand politician)

Copied here from article as I think it's a copy of the actual obituary
Mr Garland was born in Bridgnorth, Shropshire, England, and came to New Zealand with his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Garland in 1860 in the Ship 'African'. He was four years old when his parents settled on a farm at Awhitu. He was privately educated and at the age of 13 years he left home to go to sea in a schooner owned by his father, during seven or eight years at sea he commanded some of his fathers's vessels which traded along the New Zealand coast and in the Pacific. Mr Garland returned home when his father died and took up farming. He married Sarah, the youngest daughter of the later Mr Robert Scoullar of Glasgow in 1891.

With the purchasing of more land Mr Garland became interested in public affairs. He was a member of the Manukau County Council, the Awhitu Road Board and the Awhitu School Committee.

He gave up farming, because of an accident and came to Auckland where he took up land valuing. He was elected to the Newton School Committee, serving on it from 1899 to 1905; the Education Board, from 1905 to 1917; the University College Council, from 1905 to 1917; the Seddon Memorial Technical College, of which he was the first chairman, the Grey Lynn Borough Council and the Grammar School Board. He was also chairman of the Auckland Hospital Board, secretary of the Auckland Farmers' Union, and an active member of the Auckland A &P Association.

Mr Garland was one of the leading members of the Reform Party, once known as the New Zealand Political Association. When the party took power after 1912 he became a member of a series of Government commissions and from 1918 to 1932 was a member of the Legislative Council.

Mr Garland is survived by three daughters and three sons, ten grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, Mrs Garland died in 1934.  Schwede 66  07:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)