Charles Morgan Williams

Charles Morgan Williams MBE (1878–1970), known as Morgan Williams, was a Mayor and Member of Parliament for Kaiapoi in Canterbury, New Zealand. C. Morgan Williams was born in Wales in 1878 and came to New Zealand in 1902. He worked as a farm labourer in the Kaiapoi district until 1906, when he bought and leased land in the Tram Road area and grew potatoes. On the peat land he developed an extensive drainage system to allow dairy farming and founded the Maesgwyn herd of pedigree Ayrshire cattle. Williams purchased the property known as "Waverley" from Richard Evans in 1925. He also established the grain and produce business of C. Morgan Williams and Son in Charles Street, Kaiapoi. Morgan Williams was closely associated with afforestation...