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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Councillor George Edgar has served continuously on the Port Chalmers Borough Council since September, 1896, and is chairman of the Works, Lighting and Sanitary Committee. In former years Mr. Edgar took an active interest in volunteering, and was for a long time a member of the B Battery, New Zealand Artillery Volunteers, Dunedin, resigning with the rank of sergeant-major; and was subsequently a lieutenant in the Port Chalmers Naval Artillery volunteers. Mr. Edgar was born in Dunedin, in 1866, and was educated at the Albany Street school. He afterwards served an apprenticeship to the engineering trade with Messrs Reid and Gray. Since 1899, he has been in the employment of the Union Steamship Company as a mechanical engineer at the company's workshops in Port Chalmers. At the time of the Combined Trade Rowing Tournament, in 1886, Mr. Edgar was one of the winning crew, in the four-oar race, when twenty-eight crews competed for that championship. He has also been a member of the Zingari Football Club, and as a bowler won the Champion Cup for 1892–93, and the president's prize for 1883–4, at the Port Chalmers Bowling Club's rinks. Mr. Edgar was married, in 1892, to a daughter of Mr. H. Swinerd, of Dunedin.