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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Labour Deparment

Labour Deparment.

The Chief Office of the Department of Labour for the provincial district of Otago is situated on the ground floor of the Post Office Buildings, Water Street, Dunedin. Mr. James Beveridge Lindsay, the inspector, is assisted by Mrs Maxwell.

Mr. James Beveridge Lindsay , Inspector of Factories for the Department of Labour, was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, and educated at the Commerical College, Dunfermline. He was for four years a cadet in coal and shale mines. In 1875 Mr. Lindsay removed to Australia and was for five years manager of a coal mine at Newcastle, New South Wales. He then came to Otago, where he was at first engaged in storekeeping, but was subsequently a mine manager at Orepuki. After holding that position for four years and a half, he retired owing to a change in the proprietorship of the mine. He was then employed in the office of Messrs Broderick and Son, until 1900, when he was appointed Inspector of Factories at Invercargill, whence he was transferred in 1902 to Dunedin, as Mr. Maxwell's successor. One of the duties of the position consists in securing work for unemployed men, in the construction of the Government railways or with private persons. Mr. Lindsay holds a mine manager's certificate by examination. As a Freemason he is affiliated to Lodge Hiram, English Constitution, No. 46.