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

Councillor William Edmund Blackmore

page 933

Councillor William Edmund Blackmore was born in 1843, at Buckland, Tasmania, where he was educated. He arrived at the Bluff in 1863, and for many years worked in Southland at various occupations, including mining, shearing, general farm work, farm managing and horse-breaking. He also did the first ploughing at Flint's Bush, with a team of bullocks. Mr Blackmore conducted a leasehold farm on his own account for some time, and now has 100 acres of freehold, and 100 acres of leasehold, land, at South Riverton, where he carries on dairy farming. He was married, in 1873, to a daughter of the late Mr John R. Watson, of South Riverton, and has five sons and four daughters.

Councillor W. E. Blackmore.

Councillor W. E. Blackmore.