Edward Shaw was a 19th-century

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of the

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. Shaw was originally an English barrister. He worked at Bishop's school in

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. From there, he went to the Inangahua area of the

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on the

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as a resident warden and magistrate in

Inangahua Junction Inangahua is a small settlement in the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It consists of three settled areas: Inangahua Junction at the confluence of the Inangahua and Buller Rivers, north of Reefton and southeast of Westport; Inagahua L ...

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and Westport. He represented the

Inangahua Inangahua is a small settlement in the northwest of New Zealand's South Island. It consists of three settled areas: Inangahua Junction at the confluence of the Inangahua and Buller Rivers, north of Reefton and southeast of Westport; Inagahua Lan ...

electorate from to 1884, following the resignation of

Thomas S. Weston Thomas Shailer Weston (7 June 1836 – 15 October 1912), often referred to as Thomas S. Weston, was a judge and 19th-century Member of Parliament from Westland, New Zealand. Weston was the patriarch of one of two dominant Canterbury families of ...

. After retiring in 1884, he later became a district judge.

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