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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Weir, Robert , Farmer, Sandymount. Mr. Weir was born in 1855, at Anderson's Bay, Dunedin, and is the youngest son of the late Mr. Daniel Weir, who came out by the ship “Blundell.” He worked on his father's property till he was nineteen years of age, when he took up a farm at Sandymount. In 1884 Mr. Weir acquired his present property, a fine farm of over seventy acres, which he devotes to dairying. He has been a member of the Sandymount school committee for seven years, and was for one year its chairman. Mr. Weir has been an active member of the Peninsula Agricultural and Pastoral Association since its inception, and is also a member of the Portobello Rifle Club. He married Miss Cowan, fourth daughter of Mr. Robert Cowan, of Sandymount, and has three daughters and one son.