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

Milne, James

Milne, James , J. P., Farmer, “Thistledown,” Wyndham. Mr Milne was born in 1838, in Kincardineshire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up to country life. He came
Mr. J. Milne.

Mr. J. Milne.

to Port Chalmers in 1860 by the ship “Pladda,” engaged in farming work in the Taieri district, and was afterwards at Gabriel's Gully, where he was subsequently employed in a store. Mr Milne then moved to Lovell's Flat, where he farmed for two years, and started a threshing mill, which he worked in the districts between Lovell's Flat and Wyndham for a number of years. About 1866, he bought the nucleus of his present property, which he has since increased to 350 acres. When taken up, the land was in its natural state, but it has now all been cultivated, and is used for dairying and mixed farming. Mr Milne was the first chairman of the Wyndham Road Board; was afterwards for many years a member of the local school committee; was president of the Wyndham Agricultural and Pastoral Association on three different occasions; and was for twenty years a director of the Wyndham dairy factory, of which he was chairman for four years. He was also a member of the Southland County Council for a term, a member of the Wyndham Cemetery and Recreation Reserve Trusts; a member of the Wyndham branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, and vice-president for the Southland provincial district; and since 1896, he has been president of the National Dairy Association for the South Island. Mr Milne was married, in 1858, to a daughter of the late Mr Robert Farquhar, of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and has had eight sons and seven daughters, of whom one daughter has died.