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

Bremner, Alexander

Bremner, Alexander , Farmer, “The Willows,” Tokarahi. Mr. Bremner was born in Scotland, in 1852, and came to Port Chalmers with his parents in 1857 by the ship “Palmyra.” The family settled in Dunedin, and there he was educated. He has done a great deal of cropping and contract work in the Tokarahi district, and for seventeen years was in the employment of Mr. George Hutchison. Mr. Bremner took up his holding near the Livingstone Hill in 1897. The property consists of 100 acres held under a lease in perpetuity, and in addition to working this, Mr. Bremner generally crops from 100 to 200 acres of land.