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

Mr. William Nicolson

Mr. William Nicolson , Mayor of Hampden, also represent the Moeraki riding on the Waitaki County Council, and is a well known farmer at Woodside, near Hampden, where he owns 1400 acres of freehold land, on which he runs about 2000 sheep and 100 head of cattle. Mr. Nicolson also crops about 250 acres of his land. He was born in the Shetland Islands, in 1845, educated at Lerwick, and came to New Zealand in 1865, by the ship “Parai.” After living a short time in the Taieri district Mr. Nicolson went to North Otago and South Canterbury, and for a few years was employed contracting for various works. He settled in the Hampden district in 1882, was elected to the county council in 1896, has been a member of school committees for about thirty years, and for a number of years chairman of the Hampden school committee; has been for seven years a director of the Taieri and Peninsula Dairy Company, a member of the Otago Education Board, and Mayor of Hampden on several occasions. Mr. Nicolson was married in 1862 to a daughter of Mr. Charles McDonald, of Caithness-shire, Scotland, and has four sons and four daughters.