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

Mr. Francis Boyd

Mr. Francis Boyd , Manager of the Waianiwa Timber Yard, was born at Hobart, Tasmania, in 1858. He arrived in Southland at the age of five, and was brought up in Invercargill. When twelve years of age, he began to learn the sawmilling trade under his father, Mr William Boyd, of the firm of Boyd and Edwards. This firm afterwards sold the business to the Pine Company, in whose service Mr Boyd has since been regularly employed, except for eighteen months, during which he was engaged in flaxmilling. He was appointed manager of the yards in 1899. As a volunteer, Mr Boyd served for several years in the Invercargill Rifles, and, as an Oddfellow, he is a member of Lodge Pioneer. Mr Boyd was married, in 1879, to a daughter of the late Mr Frederick Mitchell, of Riverton, and has two sons and six daughters.