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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. John Campbell

Mr. John Campbell, Master of the Fairton Public School, was born at Cheviot and educated at Papanui, where he obtained the dux medal awarded by Mr. T. S. Weston, and also a School of Art drawing scholarship, which he held for three years. He went through a two years' course of training at the Normal School, and in 1898 obtained a D certificate. Mr. Campbell was relieving in several districts, before being appointed to Fairton in May, 1902. His father, Mr. Robert Campbell, arrived in Canterbury by the s.s. “Zealandia,” (Captain Foster) on the 14th of November, 1859. Mr. Campbell, senior, came to the colony as a shepherd, and has followed that occupation to the present time. He was the first to take sheep over The Whale's Back in Nelson, and in 1862 he drove 11,000 sheep from Flaxbourne to Mataura; the journey, an arduous one in those days, occupied seven months. He was for twelve years head shepherd on Cheviot estate, under the late Hon. William Robinson, and is still, at the age of seventy-five, in the best of health with a grown-up family of eight.

Mitchell, photo.Mr. J. Campbell.

Mitchell, photo.
Mr. J. Campbell.