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

Mr. James Mcdowell Irwin

Mr. James Mcdowell Irwin , Constable in charge of the Stewart Island police sub-district, and Clerk of the Magistrate's Court, was born in 1858, in County Down, Ireland, and brought up to a country life. Mr Irwin arrived at the Bluff in 1875, by the ship “Pomerania,” and has been a resident of Half Moon Bay since 1900. The section of a quarter-acre in Argyle Street, with its beautiful garden and orchard, on which Mr Irwin's house stands, was originally bush-covered swamp, and was brought page 893 into cultivation by Mr Irwin. Mr Irwin was married, in 1875, to a daughter of the late Mr John White, of County Antrim, Ireland, and has five sons and five daughters, of whom two sons and one daughter are dead.