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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. George Carlaw
Mr. George Carlaw , Senior Partner of the firm, was born in 1850 in Ayrshire, Scotland, and was educated in Glasgow. In 1865 he arrived in South Australia, where he learned the coachbuilding trade, and was afterwards in business with his father at Shea Oak Log for seven years. Mr Carlaw was subsequently in business on his own account for ten years at York's Peninsula, and then removed to Broken Hill, where he was employed as a blacksmith by the Proprietary Company for six years. In 1893 he came to Invercargill and was employed for two years by the Engineering and Implement Company. He was afterwards engaged in mining at Preservation Inlet for five years, whence he went to Dunedin, and was employed for eighteen months by Mr Joseph Sparrow. Mr Carlaw then settled in Waimahaka, and established his present business in conjunction with Mr E. Lienert. In 1875 he was married to a daughter of the late Mr Conrad Linert, of Shea Oak Log, and has six sons and one daughter.