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

Nokomai Siding

page 1017

Nokomai Siding.

Nokomai Flag Station is between Garston and Athol, on the Invercargill-Kingston line of railway. It is the centre of a small district. The Mataura river runs through the settlement, but the valley at this point is very narrow. Nokomai mining township is a few miles away over the Nokomai saddle, and on the Nokomai creek. The railway station, which is 972 feet above the level of the sea, is seventy-three miles from Invercargill. It is part of the Kingston riding of the county of Lake, and its population at the census of 1901, was 105. Nokomai mining township is in the Waikaia riding of the county of Southland, and its population, at the same census, was 113.

Naylor, Frederick , Meadowbank Farm, Nokomai Siding. “Meadowbank,” consists of 773 acres, 370 secured by selection, and the balance purchased; when taken up, it was in its
Gerstenkorn, photo.Mr. F. Naylor.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. F. Naylor.

natural state, but is now fully improved and grows good crops of wheat, oats and barley. Mr Naylor was born at Richmond, Melbourne, in 1859, and was educated in Melbourne and Dunedin, where his parents arrived in 1870. His father, who had been trained as manager of a woollen factory in the Old Country, started in the wool trade in Dunedin, whence he went to Lake Wakatipu, where his son Frederick assisted him, and remained in the trade until 1892. Mr Naylor then settled on his Nokomai Siding farm, which he had selected in 1876. Mr Naylor, who is a Justice of the Peace, takes a general interest in the progress of the district; he was for some time on the Garston school committee, and is secretary of the Athol Cemetery Trust, and secretary of the Anglican Church Committee. He was married, in 1892, to a daughter of the late Mr George Sinclair, of Maori Hill. Dunedin, and has a family of three sons and three daughters.
Boyer, John Taylor , Mine Manager, Nokomai. Mr Boyer was one of the party who bought the famous
Gerstenkorn, photo.Mr. J. T. Boyer.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. J. T. Boyer.

Golden Lion Mine at the Nokomai, in 1904, but he has since parted with his interest. He was born at Lutton, Lincolnshire, England, in 1846, and arrived in Victoria with his parents in 1852. Ten years later he came to New Zealand by the ship “St. Clair,” took part in Fox's “rush;” then he worked for a time on the Molyneux and afterwards led a bush life for two years. Mr Boyer went to the Nokomai diggings in 1865, and has been engaged mining in that district, on and off, ever since. He has a wide acquaintance with the various mining districts of Otago and Southland, and has prospected the country from the Nevis to the Clyde, and from the head of the Taieri to the Waikouaiti river. During his somewhat adventurous life, Mr Boyer has been at different times a sawmiller, hotelkeeper and butcher. He is married, and has a family of four daughters and two sons.