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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George William Cleverley
Mr. George William Cleverley , Postmaster and Telephonist at Kakanui, was born at Oamaru on the 2nd of January, 1880. He was educated at the Oamaru South School, and was brought up to the business of a bootmaker. Subsequently, he became a lime burner, but owing to an accident by the explosion of a gelinglite cartridge, whereby he lost his left hand and his right eye. Mr. Cleverley had to abandon that line of life. Accordingly, on the 1st of January, 1903, he took over the Kekanui store and post office. As a volunteer, he served in the No. 1 Battalion, and afterwards in the Queen's Rifles, at Oamaru. Mr. Cleverley was married, in 1902, to a daughter of Mr. George Southgate, of Kakanui.