Edwin Grant.
On leaving school Edwin worked on the farm for some years before moving to the North Island to enter the dairy industry, joining his brother Will at the Hurleyville Butter Factory in Taranaki.. Later he was appointed assistant at Kakaramea and was for a time at Glen Oroua and the Rata butter factories. In 1909 he went to Wanganui where he joined up with the Fresh Food and Ice Cream Co. Ltd., of which company he became co-owner and director. Before leaving for active service overseas in World War I he married Miss Mary Paton, a member of a Dunedin family, whose musical interests matched his own. Edwin served in France where he was wounded and invalided home. After his return he moved to New Plymouth to control the local operations of his company which was sold to another company in the middle 1930's.. He then joined the Dairy Division of the Department of Agriculture as a Dairy Inspector and settled first, in Wanganui, and then in Whangarei for two years and finally in Wanganui from 1938 to July 1945 when he retired. Edwin entered into the social life of the communities in which he dwelt. He played football for West Taieri in his younger days and is still an enthusiastic follower of the game. (His son. Don, was a regular member of the famous Waikato pack of the 1950's). He served with the Taieri Mounted Rifles in the volunteer days attaining the rank of Lieutenant. Bowling was another sporting activity in which he played with enthusiasm and success and from early manhood he was interested in choir music and was for many years a member of the Wanganui Male Voice Choir.