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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Mr. John Moffat

Mr. John Moffat, who has been Postmaster at East Eyreton since 1882, was born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1841. He was brought up as a blacksmith, and was employed in Scotland as such before coming to the Bluff in 1863, in the ship “Sir William Eyre.” For two years after his arrival in Southland, he was employed at bush work, and subsequently worked at his trade at Wallacetown, Blueskin, and Dunedin. Mr. Moffat then left for Christchurch, where he found employment at his trade. In 1866 he settled at East Eyreton, where he took a lease of the local smithy; in the following year he became the proprietor, and has ever since conducted the business. Mr. Moffat has thirty-two acres of land adjoining his residence and shop. In 1865 he married a daughter of the late Mr. C. McKay, of Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and has one daughter surviving.