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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. John Lyte Allan
Mr. John Lyte Allan , who is a Member of the Oamaru Harbour Board, on which he has represented the Borough of Oamaru for about fifteen years, was born in Paris, in 1833. He was educated partly in England and partly in Germany, and intended for the army, but decided to come to the Colonies, and landed in Sydney in 1853. Mr. Allan was for eighteen months interested in goldmining on the Western goldfields of New South Wales and for four years and a-half he was engaged in pastoral pursuits in New South Wales and Queensland; but in 1859 he came to Otago with the intention of becoming a flockowner. About eighteen months later, he settled at Oamaru, where he purchased 160 acres, of which he still retains forty, and on a portion of which he resides. From 1876 to 1879 Mr. Allan paid an extended visit to England. In the early days, Mr. Allan was a member of various road boards, and for a short time he occupied a seat on the Oamaru Borough Council. He was a Justice of the Peace for thirty-three years, but resigned in 1895.
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Mr. J. L. Allan.