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. Alexander Clark , Ganger of Section 72, Invercargill-Bluff railway, was born at Fowlis Easter, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1857, and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1858, when they landed at Lyttel-ton, where they stayed for three years. The family then moved to the Bluff, where Mr. Clark went to school for a short while, and afterwards joined his father at carpentering for about two years. He joined the railway service in 1877, has been on the Invercargill-Bluff line ever since, and took charge of section 72, as ganger in 1883. Mr Clark has been a member of the Greenhills school committee for six years, and secretary for the last four years. He was married, in 1892, to a daughter of the late Mr. Mahoney, County Cork, Ireland, and has five sons and two daughters.

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