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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Councillor John Mcpherson was first elected to a seat on the Port Chalmers Borough Council in 1890, and served for two years. On Mr. John Stevenson's retirement from the Council, in 1904, Mr. McPharson was elected to fill the vacancy. He is a member of the Works and Sanitary Committee. Mr. McPherson was born in the West of Scotland in 1859, and served an apprenticeship to the carpentering trade in Glasgow, with Messrs Napier and Son, builders and contractors. After a period of three years spent in a seafaring life, during which he saw a good deal of the world, Mr. McPherson arrived in New Zealand in 1882, and found employment at the Union Steamship Company's works, in Port Chalmers, where he has remained ever since. Mr. McPherson was married, in 1889, to a daughter of Mr. A. Muir, of Dunedin, and has three daughters and three sons.