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

Mr. Douglas Watson

Mr. Douglas Watson , who was prominently associated with the meat preserving business in Southland, was born in 1810, in Perthshire, Scotland, where he was brought up to farming. He subsequently has an hotel with a farm attached at Cullen, Banffshire, for twenty-two years before coming to Port Chalmers in 1863, by the “E. P. Bouverie.” Mr Watson settled at Balclutha, afterwards became manager of one of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's stations, and six years later was appointed manager of the Woodlands Meat Preserving Works-a position he held for thirteen years. On resigning, he bought a property of 200 acres at Otautau, which he named “Strathmore” Mr Watson was closely connected with educational affairs at Woodlands, and presented the committee with two acres of land as a site for the school. He was married, in 1860, to a daughter of the late Mr John Taylor, of Banffshire, Scotland. His wife died in 1881, leaving two sons and one daughter Mr Watson died at “Strathmore” in 1887.