GALVIN, PATRICK (1847-1937) was born in County Thomond, Ireland, and at the age of 12 was apprenticed to the Clare Journal. In 1863 he moved to Nenagh, County Tipperary, but in 1866 emigrated to Victoria in the Black Ball. Finding his way to Bendigo, he took the place of Joseph Ivess (q.v.) on the Independent, and two years later spent some time on the Ballarat goldfields, without success. He then joined the Ballarat Star and eventually found employment in the Government printing office in Melbourne.

In 1874 Galvin came to Dunedin and two years later to Wellington, where he was successively compositor, publisher and sub-editor of the New Zealand Times and editor of the Mail. In 1880, with J. C. Yorke and J. B. Innes, he founded the Hawera Star. He was associated later with the Manawatu Daily Times and the Poverty Bay Herald and in 1888 went to the Melbourne exhibition as correspondent for several New Zealand newspapers. In 1889 Galvin was editor of the Yea Chronicle, and while there he promoted the Victoria Country Press Co. In 1896 he became editor and proprietor of the Hawera Morning Post, but shortly resigned and joined the Mines department. He became secretary of the rivers commission and of the mining commission. He was some years on the staff of the Government Statistician and a sessional clerk of the House of Representatives. Once more in journalism, Galvin was on the Evening Post and eventually became editor of the New Zealand Mines Record. He retired in 1918 and died on 11 Feb 1937.

Who's Who N.Z., 1924, 1932; Hawera Star (jubilee issue); Evening Post, 11 Feb 1937.

Reference: Volume 1, page 160

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