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

Mr. Alfred Latimer

Mr. Alfred Latimer , formerly Engineer of the Shag Point Colliery, was born in 1865 at Port Chalmere and educated in Dunedin. He served seven years' apprenticeship to the firm of Cossens and Black, and after a year as engineer of the s.s. “Theodore,” on Lake Wanaka, he took charge as engineer of the Cromwell mine for three years. After a short digging experience in Marlborough, Mr. Latimer was for a year engaged in gold dredging, on his own account, at Deep Stream. He then became dredgemaster of the suctiondredge working at Anderson's Bay in the Dunedin Harbour, and seven months later went to Macetown as battery manager and engineer of the Tipperary Mine, and engineer for the Sunrise and Premier Mines. In 1894 Mr. Latimer was appointed engineer at the Shag Point mine. He was married on the 2nd of November, 1897, to a daughter of Mr. A. Buchanan, of Naseby.

Mr. A. Latimer,

Mr. A. Latimer,