Dawson, George , Farmer, Fyvie Farm, Woodlands. Mr Dawson was born at Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire Scotland, in 1830, and brought up to farm work. In 1852, he left for New Zealand by the “Slains Castle,” and landed at Port Chalmers. He settled at Green Island for six years, and engaged in farm work. In 1858 he took up his present farm of 250 acres, then in a state of nature. He took up another farm of 200 acres at Chatton, but sold it in 1884. While he was a resident of Chatton, Mr Dawson was chairman of the Knapdale Road Board during 1879–82. He has been chairman of the Woodlands school committee for a number of years; and since 1864 he has been an elder of the Woodlands Presbyterian church. He founded the Woodlands Dairy Factory, and has been chairman of directors on two occasions. Mr Dawson married, in 1852, a daughter of the late Mr Alexander Milne, of Fyvie, and has a family of six sons and three daughters.