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. Henry Templeton , who acts as Postmaster at Waikawa, carries on a general storekeeping business, and holds the local agency for the New Zealand Insurance Company. He also owns a cattle run of 1,900 acres at Fortrose. Mr Templeton was born in 1853, in Glasgow, Scotland, and came to New Zealand in 1864, by the ship “Paria.” He worked on the Edendale and Isla stations, and then went to the diggings at the head of Lake Wakatipu where he spent two years. After this he learned carpentering, and worked at his trade at Tapanui until 1875, when he removed to Otaraia, and carried on farming and storekeeping combined for about nine years. Mr Templeton afterwards opened a store at Fortrose, which he conducted for ten years, and during that time he bought his Fortrose property. He then spent a year at Thornhill before settling at Waikawa. Mr Templeton was at one time prominent in hammer-throwing and weight-putting contests, in which he has taken first prizes at Invercargill; and he was a member of the Otaraia Road Board, and of the Fortrose and Waikawa school committees. He married the eldest daughter of Mr John Moir, farmer, Otara, and has two sons. Mrs Templeton was born at Waikouaiti, New Zealand.