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

McCall. John

McCall. John , Sheepfarmer, Eastern Bush. Mr McCall holds at Eastern Bush a farm of 203 acres, in addition to a small run of 1,350 acres in the Belmount district, known as McIvor's Hill, and managed by one of his sons. Mr McCall was born in 1844, at Girvan. Scotland, educated at the Grammar School there, and brought up to farming on the farm of his father, who was for thirty years a road engineer in Girvan. He came to New Zealand in 1866 by the ship “William Davie,” and worked on farms and stations in the Taieri and Tokomairiro districts. In 1882, he removed to the Eastern Bush district, and took up his present farm, then in its natural state. He was the first settler in the district. Mr McCall has seen much service on the Eastern Bush school committee, as its chairman, treasurer, or secretary; and is an elder of the Waiau Presbyterian church. He was married, in 1881, to a daughter of the late Mr David Warnock, farmer, of Seaward Bush, and has a family of four sons and three daughters. As he served with a survey party throughout a large part of Southland in the years 1877–1880, Mr McCall has a comprehensive knowledge of the district.

Mr. And Mrs J. McCall.

Mr. And Mrs J. McCall.