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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Kyeburn

Kyeburn.

Kyeburn is situated seventy-eight miles north-east from Dunedin, and four miles from Kokonga, on the Otago Central railway line. It is a farming settlement, cut up into small holdings, and is noted for the excellence of its rye grass crops. Near the settlement the Kyeburn river flows into the Taieri. The settlement has a post office and a public school; and Presbyterian and Anglican services are periodically held in the school house.

The Kyeburn Public School is conducted in a wooden building, containing one room, which has accommodation for forty pupils. The glebe belonging to the school consists of ten acres. In addition to the school building there is a six-roomed residence for the headmaster, and the local post office and telephone office is also on the property.

Mr. William Bannerman , formerly Headmaster of the Kyeburn Public School, and now at Ratanui, Catlins Lake, in the Clutha County, was born on the 11th of February, 1844, at Alvah, Banffshire, Scotland. He is a son of the late Mr. Bannerman, farmer, of Westeron, Newrayne and Lenchie, Insch, Aberdeenshire. Mr. Bannerman was educated at the parish school, Rayne, at the Aberdeen Young Gentlemen's Institution, and at the Old Aberdeen Grammar school, and he also attended the Bajan Session Classes, Aberdeen University, during the session of 1870–71. In 1871, he became headmaster of the United Presbyterian school, Craigdam, Tarves, and two years later was transferred to Cairnorrie public school, Methlick, where he continued till 1894, when he resigned his position to come to New Zealand. He arrived in Wellington by the s.s. “Gothic” on the 14th of November. Mr. Bannerman holds the British Government certificate to teach, and he attended the College of Agricultural Science in South Kensington, London, in 1880, and took first class honours. At Cairnorrie he conducted evening classes for young men and women from 1876 onwards, and taught the principles of agriculture under the Science and Art Department from 1884 to 1886, and agricultural science under the Aberdeen County Council and Science and Art Department, South Kensington, in 1893–4. On arriving in Otago, Mr. Bannerman became assistant teacher in the Mornington school, Dunedin, in February, 1895; he was transferred to the headmastership at Kyeburn in December, 1897, and to Ratanui in December, page 600 1901. He was married on the 11th of July, 1865, to a daughter of Mr. George Brown, farmer of Meickle, Pitinnan, Daviot. This lady died on the 28th of July, 1875, leaving three daughters and two sons. His second marriage took place on the 25th of May, 1877, the present Mrs. Bannerman being a daughter of Mr. John Nicol, farmer, of Blackbog, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, and thee are four sons and two daughters by this marriage. Mrs Bannerman was born on the 7th of August, 1854, and was educated at Blackbog, in the parish of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, and was educated at the Fyvie Girls' School, where she served her apprenticeship as a pupil teacher. She is a trained and certificated teacher of the Church of Scotland Training College, Aberdeen. On entering College, Mrs. Bannerman gained a Queen's scholarship, in public competition, and held a distinguished position in all her classes at College. She is a teacher of music, and was organist to the Anglican and Presbyterian churches at Kyeburn. Mr. Bannerman contributed a paper on the effects of manure on turnips to the “Aberdeen Free Press” and the “Aberdeen Journal,” on the 28th of May, 1884.

Kyeburn Station , formerly the property of the late Mr. M. J. S. Mackenzie, consists of 1606 acres of freehold and 90,900 acres of leasehold land. About 20,000 sheep are depastured on the estate.

Mr. Sinclair Andrews , Manager of the Kyeburn Station, was born in 1860 in Caithness-shire, Scotland, where he was educated and brought up to pastoral pursuits. In 1883 he came to Queensland, where he worked as a shepherd for a short time and afterwards found employment in a foundry till the following year, when he came to Canterbury. After two years in which he engaged in sheep mustering and station life he became shepherd on a station near Oamaru, and held that position till 1894, when he was appointed to the management of the Kyeburn estate. Mr. Andrews was married in 1882 to a daughter of Mr. William Couper, an old settler in Mosgiel, and has one son and one daughter.

Mr. and Mrs S. Andrews.

Mr. and Mrs S. Andrews.

The Kyeburn Dredging Company, Ltd. , was established in January, 1898. The dredge has a ten horse power engine and boiler, by Marshall, and is capable of raising about fifty tons of wash-dirt per hour.

Mr. James Bennet , formerly Dredgemaster of the Kyeburn Dredge, was born in Victoria, in 1863, and brought up to farming. Since 1885, he has been engaged in connection with the dredging industry, became a dredgemaster in 1896, and was appointed master of the Kyeburn dredge in July, 1898. Mr. Bennet married a daughter of the late Mr. Robert Patrick, of Roxburgh, and has six daughters and one son.

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