Adams, John Cuthbert, 1854-1932 (Person)

SummaryJohn Cuthbert Adams was an Englishman who arrived in New Zealand in 1874 and settled in Tauranga two years later. He started off as a building contractor and was later an auditor to the Tauranga Borough Council, and property valuer. He was elected to the Borough Council in 1907, Deputy Mayor in 1910 and elected Mayor in 1917 (1 May 1917 to 12 May 1919).

Adams built Taiparoro House in 1882 in Fifth Avenue for his family, which included 11 children. He also built one of the first holiday houses at Mount Maunganui (still standing) in Adams Avenue.Main Body

Second wife(?) Hereni Edwards (d. 1915)

Children included:

E. L. (Edward Lionel) Adams (d. 1986)

Olga Livia Gertrude Adams

Clarence Adams

Hilda Beryl Adams(?)

Cuthbert Adams

SourcesMr Tollemache is now having a commodious dwelling-house of eight rooms ... erected on his farm at Otumoetai. The work is being carried out by Mr J. C Adams and staff - Paragraph well down the news column of Bay of Plenty Times, 18 April 1904, Page 2.The photocopied diary of Lyulph Plantagenet Tollemache (Ms 96) for June 1 1904 says Adams was paid £270 for the building work.Minute Book 2 1905 Page 124 (as Councillor)Tauranga Borough Councillor and Harbour Board member 1914-1915 - in Bradbury's Bay of Plenty 1915.Tauranga Chamber of Commerce 1919-1920 - inJournal of the Tauranga Historical Society Number(s) 24, 48, 17, 59, 60.Adams house for auction » Bay of Plenty Mirror, 9 October 1973

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1914 & 1915 Tauranga Borough Council

John Cuthbert Adams, 1854-1932

Taiparoro 1997

J. C. Adams c. 1900

Tauranga Borough Council 1914

Archive Collections

Horatio Gordon Robley's (1840-1930) correspondence with John Cuthbert Adams (1854-1932)

Research notes of Lionel and Olga Adams

Photocopied papers relating to the Adams family

Photocopy of notes and ledger of J. C. Adams

Stories - Places

Taiparoro House, 1882-

Our Places (authority)

Taiparoro House, 1882- (Place)

Photo 21-1867 John Cuthbert Adams 1854-1932

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First Name(s)John CuthbertSurnameAdamsDate of Birth1854Place of BirthEnglandDate of Death1932

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Adams, John Cuthbert, 1854-1932 (Person)