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

Kaihiku

Kaihiku.

Kaihiku is a Maori word, which may be translated as meaning “a feast of fish,” and no doubt the Kaihiku stream, which is now well stocked with trout, was equally well stocked with eels in the pre-colonial days. It runs, for the greater part of its course to the Clutha, through level country, which early became a scene of prosperous colonisation. The settlement, which is traversed by the Dunedin-Invercargill railway, lies about midway between Balclutha and Clinton, and is sixty-four miles south-west from Dunedin. There is a railway siding and post office at Kaihiku, but the nearest telegraph office is three miles distant, at Waiwera.

Ayson, James Fraser , Farmer, “Albert Downs,” Kaihiku, Clutha. Mr. Ayson was born in 1836, in Perthshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand with his parents, by the ship “Royal Albert,” in 1853. The family settled at the Clutha, where Mr. Ayson took his first lessons in farming; and afterwards he and his brother leased “Finegard Farm,” Clutha, which they worked successfully for twenty-one years. In 1885 Mr. Ayson bought his present property of 630 acres of freehold—mostly undulating land—on which he runs about 600 Leicester and Romney crossbred sheep. Cropping is also carried on, about eighty acres being sown with oats, and six acres with wheat. Mr. Ayson was married on the 30th of December, 1869, to a daughter of the late Mr. Robert Robson, of Clutha, Otago, and has a family of four sons and eight daughters. Mrs Ayson arrived at Wellington in 1851, by the ship “Colombus,” and for many years lived with her father on the Horseshoe Bush estate, Clarendon, Otago. Mr. Ayson is elsewhere referred to as a member of the Clutha County Council.

Watt, Peter Ayson , Farmer, Bruceton, Kaihiku. Mr. Watt, who is a son of the late Mr. John Watt, of Kaihiku, was brought up to farming, and on the death of his father, succeeded to the home estate. His property is one of the original selections, and consists of 700 acres, on which he conducts a system of general farming. Mr. Watt is a member of the Clutha Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and a member of the local school committee, of which he has been chairman for two years. He has been attached to the Order of Oddfellows for twelve years, and is a member of the Clutha Collie Club. Mr. Watt is elsewhere referred to as Captain of the Clutha Mounted Rifles.