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

Miller, James

Miller, James , Farmer, Taipo Hill, Maheno, Mr. Miller was born in 1852, in Caithness, Scotland, where he was trained to farming. He arrived at Port Chalmers in 1873, by the ship “Scimitar,” and settled in the Oamaru district. For a good many years he was cropping in various parts of the district, and in 1899 purchased Taipo Hill, a property of 422 acres of freehold. Mr. Miller was married, in 1900, to a daughter of Mr. George Watson, of Weston, and sister of Mr. J. C. Watson, Mutual Life Assurance, of Sydney, New South Wales, and has two daughters.