Oswald Curtis

Oswald Curtis (1821 – 1 March 1902) was a 19th-century New Zealand politician born in London, England, on 20 January 1821.

On 18 April, about 400 nautical miles (740 km; 460 mi) south of Cape Leeuwin, the ship caught fire.

[citation needed] He was a member of the Nelson Provincial Council from 1857 to 1867,[4] becoming its Superintendent in March 1867 when Alfred Saunders resigned.

[7] As Superintendent, Curtis opened the Nelson Waterworks on 16 April 1868 and turned the first sod at Stoke for the cutting of the Nelson-Foxhill Railway on 6 May 1873.

[8] Curtis had been, at various times, Magistrate, Warden, Coroner, College Governor at Nelson.