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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Ferrier, Robert , Farmer and Contractor, Waituna. Mr Ferrier is one of the partners of the enterprising firm of Ferrier Brothers, who have a freehold farm of 265 acres at Waituna, and also own several traction engines, a threshing plant, and a small sawmill plant, with which they carry on a contracting business. Mr Robert Ferrier was born at St. Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland, in 1861, and left for New Zealand in 1869. He was for five years on a farm in the Dunedin district, and removed to Southland in 1884, after which he was contracting for two years. In 1886 he began his present business in the Forest Hill district, where he had taken up land. About 1899, Mr Ferrier removed to Waituna, and entered extensively into the traction engine and threshing business, chaff cutting, etc.