Name, date and place of birth and death, date and place of marriage, place of burial, from research file10 in June 2017.

From Paperspast:
NELSON EVENING MAIL, VOLUME XXIX, ISSUE 88, 16 APRIL 1895
DEATH OF MR HENRY DODSON.
It is with great regret that we announce the death this morning at seven o'clock of Mr Henry Dodson, senior partner of the well-known firm of J. R. Dodson and Son, brewers. The deceased was the son of the late Mr J. R. Dodson, the first Mayor of Nelson, and a highly respected citizen of the place. He was born in Nova Scotia where the family was settled for a time. As a child Mr Henry Dodson came to New Zealand with his parents. His father entered into business as a brewer in Nelson in partnership with the late Mr Hooper, and the business is still carried on. After a residence here for some years the family went to England, remaining there for some time and returning to Nelson. Mr Henry Dodson has for long been in bad health, and for many months his life has hung by a thread. His naturally strong constitution enabled him, however, to rally time after time, when the end had been thought imminent, for the last day or two he has been in a weak state and he passed away this morning. Mr Dodson was a man of rather retiring disposition, and never took part in public affairs. In business and in friendship he was very well known, and his death will be sincerely mourned far and wide. He was a man of thoroughly upright character, and had a great power of making friends. He leaves behind a widow and a number of children, and his mother survives him. His relations may be assured that they receive much sympathy in their bereavement.

A Nelson brewing family
Extracts from:
http://www.theprow.org.nz/enterprise/nelson-brewing-family/#.WUxqMMZ7F0o
Breweries were among the earliest businesses established after the settlement of Nelson began in 1842. Poalo and Pelham were the first, in October 1843, quickly followed by Hooper & Co. on the corner of Hardy and Tasman Streets. Poalo and Pelham lasted only a few months and their Nelson Brewery trading name was later taken by Hooper & Co. It was in this company that the seeds for the current Founders Brewery were sown.
Joseph Dodson [Henry’s father] was a clever English businessman who, within days of arriving in Nelson in 1854, bought into Hooper & Co. A year later he helped set up the Raglan Brewery and then leased the Bridge Street Brewery from Charles Harley.
Henry Dodson joined his father in brewing in 1879 and after George Hooper's death they changed the company name to J R Dodson and Son.
Henry Duncan, son of Joseph Dodson's daughter Mary-Ann, joined his uncle and grandfather in 1888. He subsequently studied brewing in Great Britain, Denmark and Germany. When Joseph Dodson died in 1890, Henry Duncan and Henry Dodson continued to run the firm until Henry Dodson's early death in 1894.
Henry Duncan had inherited his grandfather's business sense, and in 1901 bought the entire company and began an extensive upgrade. He also took on his cousin Harry Dodson [son of Henry Dodson here], and expanded into aerated waters and cordials.