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

Mr. Thomas Shore, M

Mr. Thomas Shore, M. Inst. M.E., Manager of the Shag Point Mine, was born at Loch Winnoch, Renfrewshire. Scotland, in 1849. He was educated at Dairy, Ayrshire, where he was brought up to mining and became a deputy mine manager and contractor before he left for New Zealand. Mr. Shore landed at Port Chalmers, by the ship “Invercargill,” in 1879, and was employed at the Kaitangata mine for three years, at Westport for a like period, and was manager at Orepuki for two years. He afterwards became manager at Hokonui and subsequently for about five years at Walton Park, and was appointed to the managership at Shag Point in 1894. Mr. Shore became a member of the Institute of Mining Engineers in 1890. He is a Scotch Mason, and was initiated in Lodge Blair, 290, at Dairy. He is now attached to the Palmerston Lodge, and has passed all the chairs. Mr. Shore was married in 1871 to a daughter of the late Mr. A. Nibblock, of Wigtonshire, and has a surviving family of three sons and one daughter.

Mr. T. Shore.

Mr. T. Shore.