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

Mr. James Thomas Wiggins

Mr. James Thomas Wiggins , Proprietor of the Bluff Daily Supply Company, was born in 1858, in Oxfordshire, England, where he was educated. He was employed in a woollen cloth factory, till 1880, when he left for Australia. After spending some years in the Australian colonies, he landed at Wellington in 1887. Mr Wiggins worked in both the North Island and the Middle Island for some years, and in 1900 settled in Southland, where he farmed 240 acres of freehold at Otatara. He subsequently leased the Bluff Dairy Supply Company's property and embarked in his present business.