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James Shiner Bond
James Shiner Bond in 1902
15th Mayor of Hamilton
In office
May 1905 – May 1909
Preceded byWilliam Dey
Succeeded byAlexander Young
Personal details
Born12 December 1858 (1858-12-12)
Beaminster
Died26 November 1922(1922-11-26) (aged 63)
Hamilton, New Zealand
Spouse(s)
Sarah Annie O’Connor
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(m. 1881)​

Ellen Graham
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(m. 1905)​
OccupationPrinter

James Shiner Bond (1858-1922) was a printer, newspaper owner and served as mayor of Cambridge, New Zealand, and then as mayor of Hamilton.

Personal and business life

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James was the eldest son of Alfred Bond and Sarah, née Shiner, born on 12 December 1858 in Beaminster.[1] He started as an apprentice printer when he was 13.[2] James arrived at Whanganui in 1878,[3] working as a job printer at the Rangitikei Advocate. In 1880 he moved to Cambridge, where he was printer at the Waikato Mail.[4]

James married Sarah Annie O’Connor on 1 May 1881 and they had 9 children,[1] among them were:

  • Alfred James, (born 1885) and Augustine (born 4 August 1890), who sailed with the 16th Waikato Regiment on 16 October 1914.[5] Augustine was killed in the Gallipoli landing on 25 April 1915 and is buried in Baby 700 cemetery at Anzac Cove.[6] Alfred returned in 1918,[7] after being wounded and gassed,[8] and, in 1919, married Ada Ring.[9] Patricia was one of their children.[10] Alfred continued the family stationery business until he died on 15 April 1928.[11] He was buried in Hamilton East Cemetery.[5]
  • Francis Cecil farmed at Rotokauri.[12]
  • Fred C, born on 5 January 1884, published a directory.[13] He survived the war[14] and being sunk when the Wimmera hit a mine in 1918.[15]
  • Percy was wounded in France in 1916.[16][17]

Sarah died on 20 April 1902.[18] James married Ellen Octavia Graham on 29 March 1905 at Ponsonby[19] and had 3 more children.[1] Ellen died on 17 December 1955, aged 89.[20]

Waikato Times and J S Bond store in 1906

In 1881 he started the Atlas Printing Company which also sold books and stationery.[1] It was affected by a large fire in Cambridge in 1889.[21] In July 1895 James started the Waikato Advocate, a weekly journal, which bought the masthead and property of the Waikato Times from the Bank of New Zealand in 1896.[22] The previous owner, George Edgecumbe, was given a fortnight to give up possession. He set up a rival Waikato Argus and took the files, advertising contacts and subscriber lists, leaving James with the building, membership of the Press Association and a printing press. James began publishing the Waikato Times every evening, rather than 3 mornings a week.[23][24] In 1898 a large fire cracked the windows of his stationery shop at the Waikato Times.[25] In 1902 he sold the Waikato Times to Paull & Venables and was presented with a desk by his employees.[26][27][3] From 1898 to 1919 he was the Hamilton agent for the Public Trustee Office.[28] He retired to Remuera in 1920.[4]

He died at Remuera on 26 November 1922[4] and was buried at Waikumete Cemetery.[3]

Bond Street in Hamilton East was named after him[29] by its developer.[30]

Public life

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James joined the Duke of Cambridge Lodge on 5 April 1887.[1] He was on Cambridge Borough Council for 9 years,[4] including being mayor from 22 November 1892,[31] re-elected unopposed in 1894[32] and serving until 1895.[4] He was elected to Hamilton Borough Council in 1900[33] and 1901,[34] being elected unopposed as mayor in April 1905[35] and 1906[36] and elected again in 1907[37] and 1908,[38] serving until May 1909 and again elected as a councillor in 1913.[39] He was also on the Waikato Licensing Committee from 1894,[40] president of the Winter Show Association,[41] the Waikato Agricultural and Pastoral Association, chairman of Waikato Hospital Board and, when the Hamilton High School Board of Governors was first constituted in 1911, he took a seat on the Board.[4] He was a member of the Auckland Harbour Board,[42][43][44] on the Auckland Board of Education,[45][46][47] chairman of directors of the Theatre Royal Company, Ltd[4] and active in the Church of England.[48] Shortly before he died he was elected to the Auckland Grammar School Board.[49]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Historic Cambridge residents with 'B' Surnames". Cambridge Museum. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Hamilton". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "OBITUARY. AUCKLAND STAR". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 27 November 1922. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g "OBITUARY. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 27 November 1922. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Alfred and Augustine Bond". Hamilton Libraries Heritage Collection Online. 1914. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  6. ^ "Pvt Augustine Bond (1890-1915)". www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  7. ^ "COMING HOME. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 15 October 1918. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  8. ^ "OBITUARY. WAIKATO INDEPENDENT". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 17 April 1928. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  9. ^ "WOMEN'S WORLD. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 28 June 1919. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  10. ^ "ENGAGEMENTS. NEW ZEALAND HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 21 January 1943. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  11. ^ "OBITUARY. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 16 April 1928. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  12. ^ "RELIEF FOR WIDOW. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 23 July 1941. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  13. ^ "Bond's Almanac 1912". Cambridge Museum. 7 June 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  14. ^ "WIMMERA SUNK. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 27 June 1918. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  15. ^ "A SURVIVOR'S NARRATIVE. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 28 June 1918. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  16. ^ "PERSONAL. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 18 July 1916. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  17. ^ "R.F.N. Percy Bond, of Hamilton. Wounded". www.aucklandcity.govt.nz. 17 August 1916. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  18. ^ "Deaths. WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 21 April 1902. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  19. ^ "MARRIAGE. WAIKATO INDEPENDENT". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 6 April 1905. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  20. ^ "Ellen Octavia Graham Bond (1866-1955) - Find A..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  21. ^ "INSURANCES £2,500. TE AROHA NEWS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 13 March 1889. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  22. ^ Downs, Jeff. "George Edgecumbe". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  23. ^ "Newspapers | Explore | Waikato Argus". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  24. ^ "Waikato Times". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  25. ^ "DISASTROUS FIRE AT HAMILTON. WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 19 July 1898. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  26. ^ "HAMILTON. AUCKLAND STAR". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1 October 1902. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  27. ^ "DEATH OF MR R. J. PAULL J.P. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 2 September 1908. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  28. ^ "PUBLIC TRUST AGENCY. AUCKLAND STAR". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1 May 1920. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  29. ^ "HAMILTON STREETS. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 7 November 1932. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  30. ^ "Bond Street". ketehamilton.peoplesnetworknz.info. 30 June 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  31. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 24 November 1892. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  32. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 15 November 1894. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  33. ^ "WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 14 September 1900. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  34. ^ "LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. NEW ZEALAND HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 26 April 1901. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  35. ^ "MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 27 April 1905. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  36. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 20 April 1906. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  37. ^ "WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 25 April 1907. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  38. ^ "WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 30 April 1908. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  39. ^ "WAIKATO ARGUS". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 1 May 1913. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  40. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 15 March 1894. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  41. ^ "WAIKATO WINTER SHOW. WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 4 June 1929. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  42. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 10 April 1915. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  43. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 7 April 1917. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  44. ^ "WAIKATO TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 11 April 1921. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  45. ^ "AUCKLAND STAR". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 7 August 1901. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  46. ^ "NEW ZEALAND HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 18 February 1918. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
  47. ^ "AUCKLAND STAR". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 5 August 1920. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  48. ^ "AMBIGUOUS WILL. NEW ZEALAND HERALD". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 12 July 1924. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  49. ^ "PERSONALIA. NEW ZEALAND TIMES". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 28 April 1922. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
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