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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Mr. James Arkle , long a member of the Palmerston Borough Council, and Mayor on two or three occasions, is a native of Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was educated at a parish school, and brought up to the drapery trade, and in 1862 he landed at Port Chalmers, from the ship “Pladda,” on her third voyage to the Colony. He remained for two years in Dunedin and then settled at Palmerston, where he established the mercantile business with which he has been so long and still is identified. As a public man, Mr. Arkle has been well known. He has been a Justice of the Peace since 1878, and has taken a leading part in local affairs, municipal and social. He is a Freemason and is a Past Master of Lodge Palmerston; a Past Grand of the Oddfellows, Manchester Unity; vice-president of the Palmerston Jockey Club, and a member of the Palmerston Bowling Club. Mr. Arkle was married, in 1862, to a daughter of the late Mr. Calcutt, of Queen's County, Ireland, and has two daughters (both married) and two sons.