Mr. Duncan Fraser , sometime of Waimatuku, was born in 1832, in Inverness-shire, Scotland, where he was educated, and became a teacher. His father was a farmer, and on his death Mr Fraser took charge of the farm. He arrived at the Bluff by the ship “Edward Thornhill,” on the 30th of January, 1864, and after working for some time as a gold miner at Picton, and the West Coast, he settled in the Waimatuku district, where, in 1870, he took up 450 acres of land, which he farmed until his death in 1902. Mr Fraser was one of the first directors of the Waimatuku Dairy Factory. He was married, in 1850, to a daughter of the late Mr William Fraser, of Craigie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. His wife died in 1893, leaving three sons and five daughters.