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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Shanks, Andrew Muir

Shanks, Andrew Muir , Farmer, “Ellensville,” Tuturau. Mr Shanks
Mr. And Mrs A. M. Shanks And Youngest Daughter.

Mr. And Mrs A. M. Shanks And Youngest Daughter.

was born in 1844, in Glasgow, Scotland, and was brought to Port Chalmers in 1849, by the ship “Kelso.” After leaving school he engaged in general work, and spent about twelve months on the Tuapeka diggings, after which he was for some time on the Mararoa run, then the property of his brother. When that run was cut up about 1870, Mr Shanks took up his present farm, where he carries on dairying. As a floriculturist, Mr Shanks exhibits at the Wyndham and Mataura horticultural societies' shows. He is a director of the Tuturau Dairy Factory Company, Limited, and a member of the Tuturau school committee. Mr Shanks married a daughter of the late Mr John Smith, farmer, and has three sons and two daughters.