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

Mr. Alexander Anderson

Mr. Alexander Anderson , Papermaker at the Mataura Falls Paper Mill, was born in 1857, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where he attended school, and commenced his experience of paper manufacturing in the parish of Peter Coulter. He emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1876, and worked at his trade in that city. Two years later, Mr Anderson came to New Zealand, and settled at Mataura, and, excepting for eighteen months at the Woodhaugh Mill, he has ever since been employed at Mataura Falls Paper Mill. He understands every department of the trade, and worked the Woodhaugh Mill, and, for four months, the Mataura Mill, under contract. Mr Anderson received a letter from the original proprietors certifying that he was the only one, who, during their ownership, had worked the establishment profitably. He served for a few years as a volunteer in Aberdeenshire. Mr Anderson was married, in 1881, to a daughter of Mr W. H. Philips, of Dunedin and Sydney, bricklayer, and has seven sons and three daughters.

Gerstenkorn, photo. Mr. A. Anderson.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. A. Anderson.