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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Alexander Mcquarrie
Mr. Alexander Mcquarrie , who has been second clerk at the Bluff railway Station since 1897, was born in 1870 at the Bluff, where he was educated. He entered the railway service in Invercargill as a cadet in 1890, was promoted to the position of clerk six years later, and was transferred to the Bluff in the following year. He is attached to the Loyal Awarua Lodge of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, in which he has passed all the chairs. Mr McQuarrie is a member of the Awarua Boating Club, of which he was at one time secretary. He was married, in 1903, to a daughter of Mr A. Baker, of Invercargill, and has one daughter.