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Alfred Kidd
Alfred Kidd (1851 – 24 August 1917) was a New Zealand politician of the Liberal Party. He was the 18th Mayor of Auckland.
Early life.
Born at Hounslow, Middlesex, England, Alfred Kidd had arrived in New Zealand in 1865 on the ship "Ballarat", at fourteen years old, and worked in Mangere on farms for three years. On the opening of the Thames Goldfields, he moved there and "has seen it develop from a canvas town—there being only one
Aka Aka swamp annually fattened about 500 cattle for the Auckland markets as well as running a dairy herd for which Kidd built a creamery near the swamp property. Before the First World War the farms were shipping sheep for sale to Sydney and getting record prices. Alfred Kidd Jr married Miss Elizabeth Ann Parker, of Waiuku, and had a family of five children. His sister Flora married a son of Judge Gillies, Mr William F Gillies.
Christina Kidd died in 1904, and in April 1907 Alfred Kidd married Miss Ethel