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

Mr. George Tasman Dawson

Mr. George Tasman Dawson , Manager of the Colac Bay sawmill, was born in 1864, at Kentishberry, Tasmania, and came to Invercargill in 1876, with his parents, who settled at One Tree Point. He has always followed sawmilling, and has gone page 943 through every branch of the work, even learning the art of “saw-doctoring.” Mr Dawson has had nine years' experience as manager–six with Mc-Callum and Co., and three with his present employers, and he also contraeted for a mill with the old Pine Company. He has been chairman of the Colac Bay school committee for four years, is captain of the Colac Bay Rifles, and president of the local athletic and football clubs. Mr Dawson served on the Kennington and Croydon school committees respectively, and he shot at the Southland Rifle Association meeting in 1902. He is a Justice of the Peace for the colony. He was married, in 188G, to a daughter of Mr J. T. Crofts, of Invercargill, and has four sons and four daughters.

Gerstenkorn. photo. Mr. and Mrs G. T. Dawson.

Gerstenkorn. photo.
Mr. and Mrs G. T. Dawson.