The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
McIntosh. Thomas
McIntosh. Thomas
, Farmer, “Dean Burn,” Ryal Bush. Mr McIntosh was born in Roxburghshire, Scotland, and came out to New Zealand by the ship “Adamant,” in 1875. On arrival he settled in the Ryal Bush district, where he was employed for four years by the late Mr James Blaikie. He afterwards took up a small section of thirty-six acres of freehold, covered with heavy bush, which has since been cleared and is devoted to mixed farming. A visitor to “Dean Burn” is impressed by the manner in which the sheep follow their owner, answer to their names, and allow themselves to be handled. They are evidently pets, and feed confidently from the hand. Mr McIntosh's
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father, the late Mr Thomas McIntosh, died on the 8th of December, 1900, at the age of seventy-seven, but his mother, who is a daughter of the late Mr John Murray, of Dumfries shire, Scotland, is still (1905) alive, and was eighty-six on the 13th of February, 1905.