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 3«4 ADELAIDE AND VICINITY Mr. John Howard Angas FOR wdl over half a century John Howard Angas has been usefully engaged in reclaiming and developing" the waste places of South Australia. No colonist alive to-day possesses a finer record, and none has more beneficially affected local pastoral interests. Districts have been settled and townships established through his enterprise and judgment ; philan- thropic institutions have gained largely by his munificence; education and religion have been greatly assisted by his support ; and many obscure individuals have had reason to bless his name. Throughout his extended sojourn in the Province he has well and faith- fully carried on the work begun by his father. Mr. J. H. Angas was the second son of Mr. George Fife Angas, the subject of the immediately preceding memoir. He vv.is born at Newcastle-on- Tyne, on October 5, 1823, so that he was just entering his teens when his j)arent was labor- ing so zealously to found this Province. While the son was pursuing his education in the homeland, the father was entering more and more largely into the concerns of the distant Province ; but it was not then '"" ' "'" determined that the former should emigrate to the new country. As has been related in the sketch of the parent's bicjgraphy, during the land boom in Governor Gawler's administration, an agent of Mr. G. F. Angas recklessly purchased in the name of Mr. Angas, but without his authority, large tracts of country in the Barossa District, and drew on Mr. G. F. Angas for the money. These drafts the latter had great difficulty in meeting, owing to large financial losses and to engagements which at that period were harassing him. Possessed of the land, again.st his will, Mr. Angas, sen., considered that the next best thing was to develop it ; and as he had lost confidence in some of his agents in the Province, he decided to send his son out to look after his interests there. On this point the following extract,