The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Edward Chalmers
Mr. Edward Chalmers , who was a member of the Dunedin City Council in 1865, was born in Lancashire, England, in 1816, and went to Australia in early manhood. He was afterwards engaged in connection with the copper mining industry on the Barrier Islands in the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland, and later on became a Government officer. Mr. Chalmers died in 1880. in Dunedin, leaving a wife and several children.