0 @I937@ INDI
1 NAME John /McMaster/
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 1843
2 PLAC Calgary, Isle of Mull, Argylshire, Scotland
1 DEAT
2 PLAC Reefton
1 OCCU Mine Manager
1 NOTE From the Cyclopedia of New Zealand 1906.
2 CONT McMaster, John, Mine Manager, Reefton.
2 CONT Mr. McMaster was born in Argyllshire, Scotland, in January, 1847. After he was educated, he was put to engineering
2 CONC for a short time, and in the year 1567, came to New Zealand and landed at Port Chalmers, from the ship Peraboo.
2 CONC About nine months later, Mr. McMaster removed to Hokitika, and was afterwards attracted to Westport by the gold
2 CONC fields; while in that district, he was interested in one of the longest protecting tunnels on the field, the face
2 CONC of which had been extended the distance of 2,400 feet. Mr. McMaster arrived in Reefton in the year 1871, and was
2 CONC subsequently engaged in felling heavy timber, in Broadway, Reefton, and also had charge of the construction of the
2 CONC telegraph track, from Reefton to Greymouth; his work, however, was chiefly in connection with mining. Mr. McMaster
2 CONC was afterwards overseer of a shift, and mine manager of various claims, such as the Keep It Dark Company's claim
2 CONC (of which he was manager for seven years), the Inglewood, the Nil Desperandum, the Lone Star, at Boatman's, and the
2 CONC Rainy Creek, and he has managed the Golden Lead claim since the year 1896. As a Freemason, Mr. McMaster is a member
2 CONC of the Robert Burns Lodge, and is one of the oldest members of the Order of Oddfellows in the district. In June,
2 CONC 1875, he married a daughter of the late Captain Dyer, of the Isle of Wright, whose ship left Brishane, and was
2 CONC never heard of afterwards. Mr. McMaster has, surviving, five sons and six daughters.
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