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

Mr. George Lindsay

Mr. George Lindsay , Old Colonist, of Birkenshaw, Milton, is now (1904), the oldest resident of the Tokomairiro district, he having settled there in March, 1853. He was born on the 1st of January, 1826, in Glasgow, educated at Birkenshaw, in the parish of Bothwell, and afterwards worked with hisuncle, Mr. Alexander Lindsay, farmer, of that place. In 1852 he emigrated to New Zealand by the ship “Royal Albert.” After his arrival at Port Chalmers, he purchased a fifty-acre section in the Tokomairiro district, from Captain E. F. Bellairs, who had originally bought it in Edinburgh from the New Zealand Company: the property now consists of 266 acres of freehold. Mr. Lindsay has taken a very active and prominent part as a pioneer settler in every movement pertaining to the general welfare and advancement of the district, and has occupied and is still filling several public appointments.