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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Merrifield, James , Farmer, Gummies Bush. Mr Merrifield has a freehold farm of 322 acres, which he devotes chiefly to dairying. He was born in Luxulyn, Cornwall, England, in 1868, and was brought up to farming, though for some time after leaving school, he worked in a tin mine. In 1888, Mr Merrifield came to New Zealand, and landed at the Bluff. From the time of landing in the colony, until he took up his farm, in 1898, he engaged in various occupations—road-making, flax-milling, and farm work. In 1888, he married a daughter of the late Mr James Cock, engineer, Cornwall, and has three sons and one daughter. For two years Mr Merrifield was a member of Gummies Bush school committee, and he is at present (1905), and has been for three years, a director of the Aparima Dairy Factory Company, Limited. He is a member of Lodge Wallace, Independent Order of Oddfellows, American Constitution, at Riverton.