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

Councillor James King

Councillor James King , of the Wallace County Council, is a farmer at Clifden, in the Waiau district. He has been a member of the Council since 1899, and was chairman in 1902. Mr King was born at Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1853, educated at Crieff, and brought up on his father's farm. He came to New Zealand in 1879, and engaged in general farm work. After a short period spent in farm contracting, he leased a farm at Long-bush. Then he bought a farm, which he occupied for eight years, when he sold it in order to take up land at Clifden, in 1893. Mr King takes great interest in the progress of the Waiau district, and has been connected, as member or chairman, with the Clifden school committee since its inception. He is a director of the Southland Agricultural and Pastoral Association, chairman of the Waiau Draught Horse Association, and a page 963 trustee of the Clifden Cemetery. In 1892, he married a daughter of the late Mr William Strang, of Waimatuku, and has two sons and two daughters.