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

Mr. John Tait

Mr. John Tait , Manager of the Otekaike Station, was born in 1844, in Berwickshire, Scotland. He was brought up on a farm, and came to the Bluff, in 1863, by the ship “Sir William Eyre.” After a few years as a shepherd in Southland he joined Messrs Robert Campbell and Sons in 1870. For some years he was head shepherd on Burwood and Otekaike stations, and then became manager of Burwood, in Southland, where he was stationed for twelve years, and was afterwards for three years manager of Galloway station, whence he was transferred to the managership of the Otekaike station in 1899. Mr. Tait was married, in 1878, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Thomson, of Ayrshire, Scotland, and has one son.

Otekaike House, near Duntroon.

Otekaike House, near Duntroon.