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

Mr. C. F. Meyer

Mr. C. F. Meyer , formerly Proprietor of the Coffee Palace, was born in 1834 in Hamburg, where he was educated and trained for a mercantile life. In 1852, he came out to the Colonies and spent ten years in Maryborough, Victoria, during the last four of which he was in business as an ionmonger. He landed in Dunedin in 1862, and after a short experience on the diggings he entered into business as a storekeeper at Lawrence, Tuapeka goldfields, till 1880, when he removed to Dunedin. For eleven years Mr. Meyer was in business in Roslyn as a store-keeper, baker, etc. During his residence in that suburb he was on the local borough council for about five years, and also a member of the local hospital committee, and other institutions. He was married in 1860 in Victoria to a daughter of Mr. Barker, of Suffolk, England, and has seven daughters and seven sons.