William Australia Graham

William Australia Graham (22 November 1841 – 9 May 1916) was a New Zealand surveyor, mediator, farmer, politician and mayor.

William acted as interpreter for General Carey, leading to Wiremu's submission to the Queen and acquiescence to the invasion of the Waikato.

[15] and Cedric Kenny Onslow Graham, who was born on 21 December 1889 and died on 16 September 1916 at the battle of the Somme, having ignored his father's advice to come home.

[4] It had been a private girls' school,[22] run by Mrs Watts,[23] built on what had been Ngāti Wairere's Kirikiriroa pā.

[27] He was badly injured in a buggy accident[2] and died in his sleep on 9 May 1916, aged 74, after many months of failing health.

[2] A marble pillar, marking the graves of the Graham family, remains at Hamilton East Cemetery.