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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Millar, James
Millar, James , Farmer, Hedgehope. Mr Millar has a farm of 1,000 acres between the Makarewa and Hedgehope streams. He also owns 200 acres in the Mabel hundred, and one thousand acres of leasehold in the Forest Hill hundred; the latter property being named “Pebbly Hills. His home is at Hedgehope. Mr Millar was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1833, and was brought up to farming. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Agra” in 1857, and obtained farmwork in the Tokomairiro district, where he remained some years. At the time of the gold rush, however, he left, and was one of the first arrivals at Gabriel's Gully. After spending some time driving to the diggings, Mr Millar started a store in the Lake district, and then bought a farm at Myross Bush, which he afterwards sold in order to take up land in the Hedgehope district. He was one of the first to introduce steam threshing mills into Southland, and has had threshing machines continuously up to the present time. Mr Millar is a member of the Makarewa-Hedgehope River Board, was for seven years a member of the Lindhurst Road Board, and served for many years on the Grove Bush school committee, of which he was for some time chairman. He was married, in 1863, to a daughter of the late Mr Millar, farmer, Morningside, Edinburgh, but his wife died in 1872, leaving three sons and one daughter. In 1879, Mr Millar married a daughter of the late Mr Donald Noble, and there is one son by this marriage.