The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. Alex. H. Smellie
Mr. Alex. H. Smellie , Of the Otago Iron Rolling Mills, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1859. At an early age he removed with his parents to Manchester, and after leaving school entered the steel making department of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company, now the Great Central Railway Company, in the management of which he was eventually associated with his brother William. Mr. Smellie came to New Zealand in 1836, and with his father and brothers helped to organise the mills, which he and his brothers now direct. He was married, in 1884, to a daughter of Mr. D. Bruce, of Liverpool. England, and has three sons and one daughter.