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

Mcbain, Donald

Mcbain, Donald , Farmer “Lynwilg,” Otama. Mr McBain was born in the parish of Alvie, Inverness-shire, Scotland, in 1843, was educated at Baldow, and arrived in Melbourne in 1862, by the ship “Lightning.” He was engaged in goldmining for some
Mr. And Mrs D. McBain.

Mr. And Mrs D. McBain.

time at the Charters Towers “rush,” Port Darwin, and through the Gulf of Carpentaria. Mr McBain owned an hotel in Victoria for about two years, and in 1876 he came to New Zealand, and took up 400 acres of land at Otama; but he has since increased his area to 556 acres, and devotes his land to sheepfarming. Mr McBain has been a member of the Otama school committee since 1873, and he is also a member of the Otama branch of the Farmers' Union, and of the committee of the Otama Presbyterian church. He was married, in 1876, to a daughter of the late Mr Angus McEachem, sheepfarmer, Victoria, and has a family of seven sons and five daughters.