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

Mr. Donald Charles Cameron

Mr. Donald Charles Cameron , who was elected to the Dunedin Licensing Committee in March. 1903 has for many years taken a prominent part in the work of temperance reform in Dunedin. He was the proprietor and manager of the “Temperance Herald,” and of its successor the “Temperance Standard” which were in circulation in Dunedin and throughout the colony for about twenty-three years. Mr. Cameron was born in Inverness, Scotland in 1850, and as a boy sailed with his parents and a brother and sister for Victoria, where for a short time he attended the public schools in Geelong. At the age of twelve he arrived in Dunedin, and after completing his education at the public schools there he served his apprenticeship to the cabinetmaking business, which he relinquished upon being specially urged, in 1875 to accept the position of Grand Secretary of the Good Templar Order. Later on, however, he also turned his attention to journalism and commercial life and in this capacity has done good service for the temperance cause. Mr. Cameron is the lessee of the Choral Hall, and he is still the Grand Secretary for New Zealand for the for the Independent Order of Good Templars. For about thirty years he has also been an active member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, and the Sons and Daughters of Temperance Benefit Societies. He was married, in 1874 to Miss C. McNeil, of Dunedin, and has nine sons and three daughter. Mrs Cameron is also an enthusiastic temperance workers, and for some years has been G.S.J.T. of the Independent Order of Good Templars.