Dawson, Arthur William , Farmer, “Brunswick,” Kennington. Mr Dawson was born in April, 1856, in Tasmania, where he was brought up to farming. In 1877 he came to Southland with his father, the late Mr page 1057 J. H. Dawson, with whom he worked at the sawmilling trade. In 1893, Mr Dawson bought 100 acres of land at Kennington, to which he added a further thirty-eight acres in 1901, when he also bought eighty acres of the Seaward Bush estate. Mr Dawson was manager of the Mabel Bush sawmill for sixteen years, but he has devoted himself to farming since 1903. He was married, in October, 1880, to a daughter of Mr Christopher Bonnie, of One Tree Point, and has five sons and two daughters.