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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Mr. Thomas Abel Roff , Manager of the mill, was born in 1872, at Invercargill, where he was educated. His father was a sawmiller, and Mr Roff has been in the sawmilling trade since he was thirteen years of age, and has managed mills for the Southland Sawmilling Company for seven years. He was a member of the Bluff Navals for three years, is attached to the Order of Rechabites, and also takes an interest in athletics. Mr Roff was married, in 1900, to a daughter of Mr Sinclair Young, sawmiller, Invercargill, and has one daughter.