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

Mr. Allan Mcintosh

Mr. Allan Mcintosh , the Managing Director and discoverer of the Allandale mine, was born in Glasgow in 1842, and was brought up as a coal miner at Baillieston, near Glasgow. He came out to the Colonies in 1862, by the “Eastern Empire,” and landed in Sydney. After three years at Newcastle, where he found employment in the coal trade, he crossed the Tasman Sea to Hokitika at the time of the gold “rush.” Shortly afterwards he came to Otago and was employed in gold-mining at Macrae's for six months, and for a similar period in coalmining at Green Island. He went back for eighteen months to Newcastle, New South Wales, but returned to the Colony as manager of Mr. Pollock's Coal Mine at Green Island, and was appointed in February, 1871, to the charge of the Shag Point Colliery, which he controlled till 1878. On retiring from that position Mr. McIntosh opened a general store in the building in which he has since resided, and conducted the business till he opened up the Allandale mine ten years later. Mr. McIntosh has taken part in local affairs generally, and served as a member of the Shag Point school committee for several years. He was married in September, 1869, to a daughter of the late Mr. W. Williams, of London, and has had ten sons and six daughters, of whom five sons and five daughters survive.

Mr. A. McIntosh.

Mr. A. McIntosh.