Margaret Luxton - Lest we forget

The story covers some information on life in County Wicklow, Ireland; the arrival in New Zealand of John Findlay on the `Zealandia' in 1871; his efforts to become a landowner and early financial difficulties; community involvement in Orange Lodge; politics and travel; his siblings; his two marriages and his family; purchase of land in Taranaki and contracting. Finally his long association as a newspaper correspondent and through this his efforts to have burial places of soldiers who fell in the Maori Wars permanently protected and survivors recognised

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