Frederick John Maindonald

MAINDONALD, FREDERICK JOHN, Engineer and Ironmonger, High Street, Waimate. Mr. Maindonald is the eldest son of Mr. John Maindonald, of Papanui, Christchurch, and was born on Kaiapoi Island in 1865. He was brought up on his father's farms at Kaiapoi, West Eyreton, and Oxford, but he studied engineering at Canterbury College, and served for a time in one or two engineering shops in Christchurch. At the age of twenty-one he owned a threshing mill, and worked it throughout North Canterbury, and conducted a farm at West Eyreton at the same time. While on a shooting expedition he was thrown from his horse and received concussion of the brain, but entirely recovered from the effects. In 1897 he took up Willowbrook Farm at Studholme Junction. He, however, sold that property and bought the old established engineering, blacksmithing, wheel wright and ironmongery business of the late Mr. Nicolas Wall, High Street, Waimate. Mr. Maindonald has imported the latest machinery and tools, and carries on the business in all its branches, with an ever increasing number of customers. In 1895, he married a daughter of Mr. Philip Welch, of Lincolnshire, England, and has two daughters.

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