CYCLOPEDIA OF NZ 1897

Wellington Province

FOXTON:

AlZDORF, Walter Harry

Page 1133

Alzdorf, Walter Harry. Surveyor and Interpreter, Norbiton Road, Foxton. Mr Alzdorf is the son of the late Baron Alzdorf, who was killed in the old Wellington Hotel in the big earthquake of 1855. He was born at Petone in the year 1841, and claims to be the first European born in Port Nicholson. Mr Alzdorf was educated in the Colony, and served his apprenticeship in the Survey Office at Wellington, completing his tem 1861. He was subsequently employed by the Provincial and General Government as a surveyor, and between the years 1866 and 1869 laid out a portion of the town of Foxton, and most of the township of Palmerston and Fitzherbert, afterwards 200 000 acres in Manawatu and Wanganui. Mr Alzdorf had done a great deal of surveying in his time, and is well qualified to undertake all work entrusted to him.

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