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

Mr. Peter Thomson

Mr. Peter Thomson , part-owner of Spring Burn Farm, is the eldest son of the late Mr. John Thomson, a pioneer colonist, and for years a member of the Southland County Council, who died in June, 1894, at the age of eighty-one years. Mr. Peter Thomson was born near Kinross, Scotland, in 1839, and worked with his father and brothers on their farm near the Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. In 1863, they came to Lyttelton by the ship “Brothers' Pride,” and Mr. Thomson was engaged by the late Mr. James Gammack, farmer, of Springston, with whom he remained for three years. He then began farming at Leeston, and in 1870 joined his father and brothers at Winton. Mr. Thomson takes an interest in local affairs and sports, being a trustee of the Winton racecourse, and was a director of the late Farmers' United Agency Company. He was married in 1876 to a daughter of the late Mr. Walter Henderson, of Forest Hill, and has seven children.

Mr. P. Thomson.

Mr. P. Thomson.