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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Sinclair Calder
Mr. James Sinclair Calder , who is in charge of the store in the absence of the proprietor, was born in Dunedin in 1867. He was educated in Invercargill, and brought up to mercantile life under his father, Mr Peter Calder, but was afterwards in business on his own account at Middlemarch for two years. At a later period he conducted the Lea Stream Hotel for three years, during which he was secretary and treasurer of the Lea Stream school committee. In 1903, he removed to Waikaia. Mr Calder was married, in 1891, to a daughter of Mr George North, of Dunedin, and has two sons and two daughters.