DEATH. Timaru Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 20 July 1887, Page 2 Gow--At the residence of her brother James Gibson Gow M.A. Inspector of Schools West Town Belt, Timaru on the 18th inst. Lillias second daughter of Mr Peter Gow, Crieff, Scotland
DEATH. Timaru Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 4133, 7 January 1888, Page 2 ...the infant daughter of Mr James Gibson Gow M.A.
DEATHS. Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5803, 2 November 1893, Page 2 GOW--On 1st November at West Town Belt William, infant son of James Gibson Gow
MARRIAGES. Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1913, Page 1 Gow-Collie--On the 4th March 1913 at St Mark's Church Wellington by Rev C Askew M.A. John Graham Gow only son of Mr J. Gibson Gow M.A. and Mrs Gow Timaru to Maysie Alice Marianne Collie M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. only daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Collie Wellington
WITHDREW HIS PETITION NZ Truth , Issue 1253, 5 December 1929, Page 8 WITHDREW HIS PETITION Doctor Gow Did Not Proceed Against His Wife Domestic Troubles Of MEDICO (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Wellington Representative) When the Gow v. Gow divorce suit was called for hearing before the Chief Justice at Wellington counsel for Dr. John Graham Gow the petitioner asked leave to withdraw the petition the application being granted
BIRTHS. Otago Daily Times , Issue 11783, 12 July 1900, Page 4 Gow--On the 4th July at Mount View Asylum Wellington the wife of W. Baxter Gow M.D. C.M. (Edin) of a son
LIST OF NEW JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Ashburton Guardian, Volume xxix, Issue 7510, 12 June 1908, Page 4 Wellington June 11. The following additions have been made to the list of Justices of the Peace in the Canterbury district: William Baxter Gow, Christchurch
DEATHS. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 126, 29 May 1924, Page 1 Gow--On Wednesday 28th May 1924 at Wellington William Baxter Gow, M.D. beloved husband of Ethel Gow. (Christchurch papers please copy) PERSONAL MATTERS Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 126, 29 May 1924, Page 6
Dr William Baxter Gow one of the best known members of the medical profession in Wellington died at his residence 187 Tinakori Road yesterday. Born at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland the late Dr. Gow graduated as M.B. of Edinburgh and later M.D. gaining honours for his thesis. Coming out to New Zealand he was appointed medical superintendent at the old Mount View Mental Hospital previously having gained considerable experience in the treatment of mental diseases at Prestwick Asylum, Lancashire. Subsequently on the retirement of Dr. Levinge Dr Gow as appointed to Sunnyside. Following a breakdown in health which prevented him from undertaking ward duties Dr Gow was made Deputy Inspector General of the Mental Hospitals' Department. He was granted sick leave last year but as his health did not improve he recently retired from the service. The late Dr. Gow is survived by a widow and a son and daughter. There will be a funeral service at St Paul's Pro-Cathedral at 8:45 a.m. tomorrow and the interment will be at Karori
Ronald Gow 1897-1993 son of Anthony H M GowSource for pictures for Gow family is the MacKenzie-Gow Ancestry tree
- Otago Witness April 3 1880 passenger list on arrival on page 14
Forty Passengers for New Zealand per Messrs P. Henderson and Co.'s William Davie (Captain McAllister) from Glasgow, January 20th, 1879 consigned to Messrs Cargills, Gibbs, and Co.:
The William Davie, 841 tons, built in 1866 by Stevens at Glasgow for the Albion Shipping Co. made at least fifteen voyages to New Zealand, 13 to Port Chalmers and one to Bluff and one to Lyttelton. Her maiden run from Glasgow on 5 August 1866 reaching Port Chalmers on 1 November with 200 passengers, under Captain Logan. 88 days
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http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/wmdavie.htmSource for articles on Gow family are from New Zealand Papers Past
JOHN GRAHAM GOW was born at Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland, on 5 May 1850, the son of Janet Graham and her husband, Peter Gow, a coal agent. Graham, as he was known, received commercial training in Glasgow, and was described as a provision merchant when he married Mary Anne King at Langside, Perthshire, on June 8, 1876
With his wife and two young children, Gow emigrated to New Zealand in 1880 on the William Davie. One of the children died on the voyage. For the next 21 years Gow worked as a commercial traveller successively for three provision merchant firms: W. & J. Scoular, W. & G. Turnbull and Company, and for J. Rattray and Son. During this period Gow lived in Dunedin. Although he travelled principally in the South Island, Gow was reputed to know New Zealand 'from the seaweed at the base of the Bluff to the top rock of the North Cape'. A contemporary description is of a 'deep-chested man, with a firm jaw, a travel-tanned face, deep-set eyes, bushy eyebrows…broad shoulders and a Scotch accent'. Gow was a fluent orator and storyteller, a crack rifle shot who started the first rifle club in Dunedin, an amateur strongman, and a keen bowler
Presumably it was Gow's personal qualities, together with his knowledge of the provisions business in New Zealand and overseas, that brought him to the attention of the Liberal government and led to his appointment on 25 March 1901 as trade representative for New Zealand. This was the first appointment of its kind. Gow was to travel throughout New Zealand meeting producers and manufacturers, and obtain information and samples to bring before the commercial communities of South Africa, India, China, Japan and elsewhere. The instructions reflected an early effort on the part of the government to promote exports
By 17 August 1901 Gow had completed the first part of his mission and set sail for South Africa, where he spent two months visiting the main commercial centres and exhibiting samples of New Zealand wares. He reported good prospects for a wide range of food and animal feeds. Gow focused, in particular, on the shipping services and cold-storage facilities available for New Zealand's business. He advised the minister of industries and commerce, Sir Joseph Ward, to offer a subsidy for a direct shipping service, but not to try to enter into the provision of cold storage. His advice was accepted in both areas and trade expanded over the first years of the new service
In December 1901 Gow moved to the United Kingdom where he spent five months travelling widely and promoting New Zealand and its products. He wrote regularly to the minister; his reports were distributed to commercial interests in New Zealand and some were published in the annual reports of the Department of Industries and Commerce. Gow also wrote directly to the premier, R. J. Seddon, with accounts of his activities. Seddon was not always impressed. Writing to Ward from London in June 1902 he expressed disappointment at the results of Gow's travels and meetings
This criticism, and that of opposition members of Parliament in 1908, seems not to have had any adverse effects on Gow's career. In May 1902 he left the United Kingdom for the Far East. From June to November he travelled in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and India. The following year the New Zealand government decided to open an office in South Africa and Gow was appointed as commercial agent. He remained until late 1905, when the post was closed because of depressed economic conditions there. In April 1906 Gow was reporting from Kobe, Japan, and later that year he was sent to Canada where he was to spend the next 14 months
Details of Gow's work after this time are scarce. The Department of Industries and Commerce was merged with the Department of Agriculture in 1909 and there was a lesser focus on trade development in departmental reports. In 1910 Gow was in Argentina presenting New Zealand products at an international exhibition. Apparently he continued his work overseas until 1913, but on returning to New Zealand suffered a severe illness and retired from public service. He went to live in Winton, where he died on 17 February 1917, survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter. In the 12 years he had spent pursuing and representing New Zealand's trading interests throughout the world, Gow charted a course followed since by many a trade commissioner, a title he was accorded in parliamentary and media comment. His reports, although on occasion sketchy and sometimes self-serving, generally were informative, to the point and frank. He faced the dilemma of all trade commissioners: 'It is for the exporters to decide upon the extent of the trade to be done; my duty is to give them the facts.' New Zealand's trading future was built on the foundations to which Gow contributed
Source: TED WOODFIELD http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/
More clues have popped up about the following picture ; now I think the man seated on the ground may be John Graham Gow New Zealand Trade Commissioner and possibly the men in the middle may be his sons, Peter and James G Gow? WBC may be Winton Bowling Club, of which John Graham Gow was a member ; Charles H Warden is standing back
If anyone knows who the friends are with Charles please do send me mail janellewarden!
check out the likeness of the man on the left with the man seated on the ground
- John Graham and Mary Anne King Gow Family
Otago Daily Times , Issue 7814, 8 March 1887, Page 2 On the 4th March at Langside Sunnydale the wife of John Graham Gow of a daughter
Mary Anne King b. March 13, 1853 - died November 6, 1919 ; picture below shows Mary Anne, John G and Duncan McEwan King (brother of Mary Anne)
Duncan King seated leftOBITUARY. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3988, 20 February 1917, Page 3 J.G. Gow (per press association) Invercargill, February 19. The death is announced of Mr John Graham Gow formerly Government Trade Commissioner aged 67 years. (Mr Gow was formerly in business in Otago and Southland was appointed Government Trade Commissioner and made several world tours in the course of his duties. He spent considerable time in the United States, Canada and South Africa and was instrumental in making the resources of New Zealand widely known and in attracting business and tourist traffic to the Dominion. Mr Gow's brother Dr W.B. Gow was formerly superintendent of Sunnyside Mental Hospital. Another brother is a well known school inspector)
Papers Past New Zealand
Visitors to Christchurch. Star , Issue 7428, 24 November 1892, Page 3 ; Warner's Hotel...Mr J. Graham Gow, Dunedin
PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON. Evening Post, Volume LXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1904, Page 2 Mrs J Graham Gow and her daughter have for some time past been residing at Stroud Green a pleasant North London suburb but I hear they purpose before long leaving for South Africa there to join Mr Graham Gow New Zealand Government Trade Commissioner. Their two sons will in all probability remain in England for about a year longer
WOMEN IN PRINT. Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 145, 16 December 1911, Page 7 Mrs Graham Gow and her daughter are leaving to night for Southland on a visit to her sons, Dr. Gow and Mr J.G. Gow
Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 15, 18 July 1917, Page 7 A cable message has been received by Mrs Graham Gow, Winton, stating that her youngest son James Gibson Gow has received a commission and is shortly returning to New Zealand to be attached to his company. Lieutenant Gow left with the 4th Reinforcements and saw considerable service in the trenches in France where he was recommended for a commission. He is the son of the late Mr J Graham Gow Trade Commissioner for New Zealand
Women in Print. Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 9 Mrs Graham Gow has come from the South to meet her son Lieut Gow who is returning from the front
Obituary. Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 661, 5 February 1918, Page 3 DUNCAN McEWAN KING