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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. John Morrison Allan
Mr. John Morrison Allan , Master of the Cambrian Public School, was born in Glasgow in 1865, and received a portion of his education in the Hutcheson school. He arrived at Port Chalmers with his parents by the ship “Auckland,” in 1877, and after undergoing a course of training as a teacher at the Normal school, Dunedin, he served on the relieving staff for two years before being sent to Kokonga in 1898. Mr. Allan war the first student to obtain the senior diploma of the Otago Technical school. He also took first prize for science at his certificate examination. Mr. Allan, who was promoted from Kokonga to Cambrian, was married, in 1898, to a daughter of Mr. Andrew Fairburn, of Maori Hill, Dunedin.