CYCLOPEDIA OF NZ 1897
Wellington Province
MASTERTON:
EWART, James
Page 961
Ewart, James, Wairarapa representative of the New Zealand Loan and
Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, Masterton. Mr. Ewart, who is a
cousin of Dr. Ewart, of the Wellington Hospital, was born in 1858, in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Arriving in Port Chalmers in 1878, he was
farming in Southland till 1886, when he entered the service of the Loan
and Mercantile Company as station-manager in Hawkes Bay. From 1889 to
1892 he engaged in the stock agency business, becoming stock buyer for
the Gear Company for two years ending 1894, when he was appointed
representative for his Company in the district. Mr. Ewart was married in
1892 to a daughter of Mr. A. H. Ross, of Dunedin, late M.H.R. [Member of
the House of Representatives] for Roslyn, and has a son and a daughter.
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