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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Councillor John Bragg
Councillor John Bragg , who was elected to the Stewart Island County Council in 1902, was born at Leask's Bay, Stewart Island, in 1848, and brought up to a country life. He went to the West Coast diggings in 1865, and shortly afterwards engaged in the oyster and fishing business in Southland. He has also been engaged in sawmilling at Patterson's Inlet, and in sheepfarming. Mr Bragg now resides at Bragg's Bay, where he owns twenty-nine and a-half acres of land. He was married, in 1875, to a daughter of the late Mr John Owen, and has had seven sons and three daughters, but all his daughters have died.