The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Alexander Sutherland
Mr. Alexander Sutherland , the Proprietor, was born at Inverness, Scotland, in 1851, and three years afterwards arrived with his parents in New South Wales, where, when he grew up, he was employed contracting on stations for ten years, and afterwards took up a small station on his own account, which he held for about five years. Mr Sutherland then spent three or four years in travelling for an auctioneering firm, and went even as far as New Guinea. He came to New Zealand in 1900, when he bought the necessary machinery, and has over since been in the flax-mill business.