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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George Bremner Smith
Mr. George Bremner Smith , Manager of the New Zealand Drug Company's Chemical Works, at Burnside, was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, in 1841. When eighteen years old he went to the United States, and apprenticed himself to the engineering trade, at Maine, but in 1862 left for Australia to join his father, then Chief Pleuro-Pneumonia Commissioner of Victoria, at Melbourne. After assisting his father for a time Mr. Smith entered the chemical business of Messrs Clarke, Hoffman and Co. He worked up to the position of manager, and afterwards he and Mr. Cuming and Mr. C. Campbell bought the business, and the firm became known as Cuming, Smith and Co. In 1881 Mr. Smith disposed of his interest, and came over to New Zealand to erect and manage the works at Burnside. On leaving Melbourne he was presented, by his late employers, with a solid silver flower bowl, and also received many other valuable presents. For four years Mr. Smith was a member of the Footscray Borough Council, a suburban municipality of Melbourne, and was still a member when he left for New Zealand. He was married, in 1887, but his wife died in 1900, leaving two sons and three daughters.
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Mr. G. B. Smith.