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

Mr. James Harrison

Mr. James Harrison , Managing Director of the Otago Farmers' Co-operative Association, was born in Dunedin in 1850. He is the eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Harrison, of East Taieri, who arrived by the ship “Blundell” in 1848, and died in 1885. Mr. Harrison was educated partly at East Taieri school and partly in Dunedin, and was farming in the Taieri until 1888. He then bought property at Middlemarch, but let it on lease in 1900, to take up his present position in the Otago Farmers' Association, with which he has been connected since its inception. Mr. Harrison was one of the first Provisional Directors of the Association, and succeeded Mr. Freeman, the first Managing Director, who retired in 1902, through ill-health. He has for years taken an active interest in local affairs, and was for ten years a member of the Taieri County Council; at present he is a member of the Charitable Aid Board and of the Dunedin Hospital Committee. Mr. Harrison married Miss Mackie, daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Mackie, who occupied an important position in the Mosgiel Woollen Factory.