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

Mr. Robert Chisholm

Mr. Robert Chisholm . Managing Director of Scoullar and Chisholm, Limited. was born at Scotlandwell, Kinross-shire, Scotland. He was educated at the Free Church school in the parish of Portmank, and arrived at Port Chalmers, Otago, by the ship “Three Bells” in the year 1858. During the first years of his residence in Dunedin he served an apprenticeship to carpentry, and afterwards worked at his trade as a journeyman. Before being apprenticed he herded cows for two years on the land now covered by High Street and Stafford Street, and remembers the time when the tide banked up to the corner now occupied by the premises of Scoullar and Chishol, Limited. Mr. Chisholm has long taken a prominent part in connection with public affairs. He was Mayor of the borough of Roslyn for three years. After being for many years a member of the Otago Benevolent Institution, he was its chairman for three years. He has been chairman of the United Districts Charitable Aid Board and of the Otago District Hospital Board; was for a number of years president of the Otago Rugby Union, of which he is still a member; he is also one of the visiting Justices of the Dunedin gaol, and has been chairman of the Retailers' Association since its inception. Mr. Chisholm married a daughter of the late Mr. T. Thomson, of Dunedin, and has one son and three daughters. He is further referred to in other articles as a former member of the Dunedin City Council, and as having been Mayor of Dunedin from 1899 to 1901.
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Messrs Scoullar And Chisholm's Warehouse.

Messrs Scoullar And Chisholm's Warehouse.