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

Mr. Joseph Swap

page 962
Mr. Joseph Swap , who has been a member of the Otautau Town Board since 1892, was born in 1857, in Aberdeen, where he was educated and brought up as a carpenter and joiner. When twenty-two years of age, Mr Swap came to New Zealand with his wife by the ship “Napier,” and landed at Port Chalmers. After residing in Dunedin for eight months, he settled at Otautau in 1880, and commenced
Mr. J. Swap.

Mr. J. Swap.

business as a builder. Mr Swap has erected a considerable number of buildings in the Otautau district, including the Presbyterian and Anglican churches. He resides in Main Street, where his commodious dwelling-house stands on a site of an acre and a-half. Mr Swap was chairman of the Otautau Town Board in 1900, and is a member of the committee of the Otautau Racing Club, of which he has been president. As a Freemason, he was Worshipful Master of Lodge Wallace, in 1904. Mr Swap was married, in 1879, three days before leaving Scotland, to a daughter of the late Captain J. Ewen, of Aberdeen. Mrs Swap died in 1903, leaving one son and two daughters.