MALFROY, JEAN MICHEL CAMILLE (1839-97), a son of Jean Baptiste Malfroy, a miller, was born at Lons-le-Saulnier, in the department of Jura, France. Emigrating to Victoria in the early fifties, he worked at Bendigo and Ballarat, and a few years later came to New Zealand and settled on the West Coast. For a time he was mayor of Ross. Appointed in 1886 as resident engineer of the Government sanatorium in Rotorua, he made a study of the geysers of the district, especially at Whakarewarewa, and published Geyser Action at Rotorua (1892). In 1889 he represented New Zealand at the Paris Exhibition, where he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. In 1893 he reported on the Hanmer springs. Malfroy died on 22 Jan 1897.

Cycl. N.Z., ii (p); N.Z. Herald, 24 Jan 1897.

Reference: Volume 2, page 27

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