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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. John Fraser
Mr. John Fraser , Stationmaster and Postmaster at Lumsden, was appointed to the position in 1904. He was born in 1869, at Sydenham, Christchurch, educated in his native town, and entered the railway service as a cadet. He served four years in the railway telegraph office, and five years in the goods department. Then he was appointed stationmaster at Jackson's, on the West Coast, and, three, year later, was transferred to the West Oxford station, Canterbury. Mr Fraser is a member of the New Zealand Railway Officers' Institute, and also of the Lumsden Masonic Lodge. He was married, in 1893, to a daughter of Mr Samuel Campbell Doyle, of Doyleston, Canterbury, and has two daughters and one son.