The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Rayne
Mr. Rayne was born in 1869, at Willington, in the County of Durham, England. He arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Timaru” in 1878. About 1880 he commenced work as a cowboy in the Waitaki Valley, and has had experience of fleece-picking, and rabbiting, and afterwards did a little dealing in sheepskins, rabbitskins and wool. In 1897 Mr. Rayne started a general store at Omarama, which he conducted for two years, and was proprietor of the Lindis Hotel for two years and a half before purchasing the store at Duntroon. As a Freemason he is attached to Lodge Ngapara, No. 63, New Zealand Constitution.