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Henry and Christopher Mace were two of five brothers who came to New Zealand. A sibling gave his name to Macetown near Arrowtown in Otago. Henry was on the Victorian goldfields and at Gabriel’s Gully, Otago. On the West Coast goldfields he went into partnership as a cordial manufacturer with a Mr. Dixon; the partner’s daughter, Catherine, became Mrs. Mace. In Wellington Mace was a brewer. In the 1880s he bought a Christchurch cordial manufacturing business, operating it till his death.
Mace was a sportsman. In his younger day he was a member of the Canterbury cricket team and then the Canterbury-Otago team which faced the first English eleven to visit the colony. Years later he owned the New Brighton Trotting Club, just as Robert Button was to own it afterwards. He called his stud ‘Brooklyn Lodge’ and
… reared some of the best horses of their day in this colony ….Nothing afforded him more pleasure than to race horses of his own breeding, and in this aspect he was particularly successful.
Mace’s horses included ‘Bedale’, ‘Brooklyn’, ‘Brookholm’, ‘Allerton’ and ‘Jessie Palm’.
Henry Mace who had been born at Bedale, Yorkshire, on 4 June 1837, died on 19 July 1902. Christopher, 76, died on 23 November 1907 (see Block 3, Plot 4). Catherine, 55, died on 23 April 1909.