John Maynard
Date of birth
Circa 1840
Date of death
29 Sep 1925
Biography
John Maynard (born in London in 1840) went to the Ballarat goldfields and to Gabriel's Gully. After being on active service in Taranaki he settled in Poverty Bay in 1865, and took part in the fighting against the Te Kooti rebels. He conducted the Muriwai Hotel for Captain Read in 1866, and was the first licensee of the Albion Hotel (1868). In 1870 he established a butchery at Ormond, where, in 1875, D. McNair built for him the first stone house erected in Poverty Bay. Subsequently he was in business in Gisborne. He died in February, 1925.
