WEYERGANG, OTTO PHILIP AUGUST (1828-1905) came to New Zealand from Germany in the early forties and settled in Nelson. He was a teacher at the Waimea East School till 1851, when he was naturalised and appointed a master at Nelson College. In 1860 he was made an ensign in the Nelson militia, and in the following year he resigned from teaching, and went to New Plymouth, where for many years he was engaged as a wine and spirits merchant. He sat in the Provincial Council for New Plymouth (1872-73), and was a member of the New Plymouth borough council (1878-79). He later engaged in farming at Eltham, where he died on 1 Jan 1905.

Taranaki Herald, 3 Jan 1906. Portrait: Taranaki Hist. Coll.

Reference: Volume 2, page 245

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