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

Councillor John Wallace King

Councillor John Wallace King was elected to the Campbelltown Borough Council in 1893. Mr King was born on the 3rd of December, 1863, at the Bluff, where he was educated. After working for nine years at the Bluff Freezing Works, he joined the staff of Messrs J. Mill and Co., in 1897, and was promoted to the position of foreman in April, 1900. Mr King has been a member of the Bluff school committee, and was for some time a volunteer in the Bluff Navals. He was one of the founders of the Awarua Lodge of Oddfellows, in which he has passed all the chairs, and was for a time president of the junior lodge. Mr King was married, in 1888, to Miss Burgess, of Glasgow, and has four daughters and two sons.