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

Irvine, Joseph

Irvine, Joseph , Farmer, Five Roads Farm, Windsor. Mr. Irvine was born in 1868. in County Antrim, Ireland, where he was trained as a farmer. He arrived at Lyttelton by the S.S. “Tongariro” in 1883, and after two years in Auckland settled in the Oamaru district, where he found employment as a ploughman, and afterwards became a shepherd on Waitangi station. He subsequently held similar positions at Te Akatarawa and Kuriheka, and in 1900 he drew a section of 366 acres on the Elderslie settlement. Mr. Irvine has erected a homestead and effected many improvements on his property. He was married, in 1900, to a daughter of the late Mr. Archibald Johnston, of Maheno, and has two daughters.