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

Mr. Robert Hutton

Mr. Robert Hutton , Postmaster at Glenary, is a well-known farmer and sawmiller in the district. His property consists of 220 acres of freehold, and 105 of leasehold land, devoted to mixed farming and sawmilling. Mr Hutton was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, on the 24th of May, 1844. In 1859 he landed at Port Chalmers, by the ship “Sevilla,” from Glasgow, and settled at Waipori. He had experience in connection with gold mines, in the early days, in Otago; he was at the Dunstan “rush,” and drove Messrs Hartley and Riley, the well-known prospectors, from Waikouaiti to Black's station, Manuherikia. For several years he was employed in driving bullocks at a station on the Dunstan. Mr Hutton visited the Waiau district in 1866, and had some years of general experience in country life, before he settled at Glenary, which is at the head of the Waikaia Valley. In the early eighties, soon after settling on his property, he commenced sawmilling; the timber was drawn from the bush by his own bullock teams, in charge of his own sons. Mr Hutton was married, on the 24th of December, 1873, to a daughter of Mr James Lynch, one of the old military settlers, who took up land at Howick, near Auckland. Mrs Hutton was born on the 24th of December, 1845, and was brought by her parents in the troopship “Sir Robert De Sales,” which left the Old Country in January, 1846, and arrived at Auckland in May of that year. She was educated and brought up in the Auckland district, where she resided until 1862, when she removed to Wellington, which she left in 1871, for Southland. Mr and Mrs Hutton have a family of five sons and four daughters.

Mr. And Mrs R. Hutton.

Mr. And Mrs R. Hutton.