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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George Ferguson Fleming
Mr. George Ferguson Fleming , who has been in charge of the Woodlands Yards since 1901, was born at Newton Stewart, Wigtonshire, Scotland. After coming to New Zealand, Mr Fleming was employed in the railway service for a time, and was then eight years in the employment of Mr W. Snow, of Outram. He was afterwards lighthouse-keeper at Dog Island, for two years, and then in the employment of Messrs McCallum and Co., timber merchants, for eight years, before being appointed to his present position. Mr Fleming served for three years as a page 1065 volunteer in the West Taieri Rifles, and, as a Forester, is attached to Court Star of the Forest, Woodlands, of which he was Chief Ranger in 1904.