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

Mr. Arthur James Millard

Mr. Arthur James Millard , who has been headmaster of the Fortrose public school since 1889, was born at Wetherstones, Tuapeka, in 1864. He was educated at the public school at Wetherstones, and at the Lawrence District High School, and, after being a pupil teacher at Ryal Bush for four years, had charge of the Slopedown school for a year and eight months. Mr Millard was subsequently sole teacher at Charlton for three years before being appointed to his present position, in 1889. He served as a volunteer in the K Battery, Invercargill, and, in 1901, he joined the Murihiku Mounted Rifles at Wyndham as a trooper, became quartermaster-sergeant, and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 1903. Mr Millard was married, in 1888, to a daughter of the late Mr Edward Wilson, of Invercargill, and has four sons.