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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Small, Andrew , Farmer, Oreti Island and Dane's Paddock, Waimea Plains, Lumspen. Mr. Small was born at the Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland, in 1850, and emigrated to New Zealand, in 1870, by the ship “E. P. Bouverie.” On arrival at Port Chalmers, he obtained employment with Mr. Joseph Culling, farmer, at Moeraki. He afterwards engaged in gold-digging at “Twelve Mile,” near Queenstown, where he remained for some years. Subsequently, he settled at Lumsden, where he engaged in dairy farming and contracting. Mr. Small purchased his present properties in 1892, and has since that time been successfully carrying on dairying and mixed farming on his six hundred acres of fine arable land. He uses an Alexandra cream-separator, with which he produces butter of the primest quality and for which he finds a demand as far as Skipper's diggings, in the Lake district. Mr. Small is a prominent member of the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity, and district lodge deputy of the Independent Order of Good Templars. He is also an elder in the Presbyterian church, and chairman of the Lumsden school committee. Mr. Small was married, in 1875, to Miss Alice Howorth, and has a family of fourteen children.