BUDGE, WILLIAM (1816-71) came to New Zealand as an assistant surveyor in the Will Watch (1841) and worked for the New Zealand Company for some years. In 1848 he was sent to survey the Wairau and Queen Charlotte Sound and he lived on Budge's Island until it was submerged in an earthquake in 1855. He then took up a run at the Bluff and some farming country, which later he leased to the Redwoods. Budge represented Lower Wairau in the Marlborough Provincial Council (1862-64). He died on 30 Oct 1871.

Marlborough P.C. Proc.; Buick, Marlborough

Reference: Volume 1, page 74

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