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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Mccauchan, Patrick , Farmer, “Greenwood,” Mataura Island. Mr McCaughan was born in 1866, in County Antrim, Ireland, where he was educated. He found employment in farm work until coming to Port Chalmers by the s.s. “Coptic “in 1887. Mr McCaughan settled in the Wyndham district, where he worked until 1892, when he commenced farming at Menzes Ferry. Three years later, he sold out, and removed to Mataura Island, where he bought 120 acres, then mostly covered with black pine. With the exception of about ten acres, the bush has since been cleared, and the property is worked chiefly as a dairy farm; twenty-two cows were in milk in 1904. Mr McCaughan has been a member of the Mataura Island school committee since 1900. He was married, in May, 1892, to a daughter of Mr John Bigwood, saddler, Mataura, and has two sons and five daughters.