More Info →Alfred Tanner

Alfred Tanner died in September 1902, aged 67. He was a stone mason and brick layer who worked on the construction of the Carroll building, the first Gasworks, The Opera House and the Public Hospitial. According to family history Alfred once lived in a hut on a manuka patch that became a part of the Square, had a farm at Tiakitahuna, and later in the Kairanga District. Mr Tanner was the father of Mrs Hannah Eades, of Woodville.