Burke Manuscript

Burke Manuscript: Page 088

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A very busy man in the sixties, was Mr E.G. Wright of Ashburton. He contracted largely in West Coast Road making, and other undertakings and was very successful. He was then a fine handsome man, with an acute, but pleasant expression and remarkably active and energetic. Like R.H. Rhodes, in the fifties, he was here, there and everywhere, flying round on a good horse. He was always a man of good repute in business matters and well spoken of by his men, and he employed many.