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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mciver, Malcolm
Mciver, Malcolm , Farmer, Duntroon. Mr. McIver was born in the Island of Lewis, Ross-shire. Scotland, in 1836. He was brought up to sheepfarming by his father, and followed that calling for about twenty, five years on his own account, before coming to Port Chalmers, in 1862, by the ship “Mystery.” Mr. McIver entered the service of Mr. T. W. Hall (brother of Sir John Hall) as shepherd at Rakaia, Canterbury, and after a time removed to the Mackenzie country. Six months later he was at the Dunstan, and at the Arrow diggings, but meeting with no success, returned to a farming life, and found employment as a shearer at Lake Wanaka. Subsequently Mr. McIver made another attempt at goldmining, this time at the Nevis, and was then for three years shepherd at Moa Flat station. On coming to the Oamaru district, he was employed by Messrs Lees and Moore, and eventually became manager of Clarkesfield station, on the north bank of the Waitaki river. He afterwards entered the employment of Messrs Robert Campbell and Sons, and was stationed at Waihao Downs; and when the property was purchased by Mr. John Douglas, he continued in that gentleman's service for three years. After a rest of three months in Oamaru, Mr. McIver was appointed manager of the Waihaorunga station in South Canterbury, where he remained for three years. For six months afterwards he resided at his home in Oamaru, and then took the management of Clarkesfield station a second time, before settling in 1893 at Duntroon, where he built a large house on the terrace overlooking the township. Mr McIver has served as a member of the local school committee; and since 1898 he has been a trustee of the Maerewhenua (Waitaki Islands) Committee, which has charge of certain unoccupied lands of the Crown. Mr. McIver was married, in 1868, to a daughter of the late Mr. David Watt, of Oamaru, and has two sons and four daughters.