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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Orr
Mr. James Orr , who has been Headmaster of the Arrowtown school since 1900, was born in 1843, in Sutherlandshire, Scotland, and was educated there and in Melbourne. He came to Port Chalmers by the ship “Henrietta,” in 1860, and in 1864 commenced teaching at Otepopo, in the Oamaru district. In 1868, he went to Melbourne, where he studied for his profession for a year. On returning to Otago, Mr Orr was teaching at Roxburgh for a time, and was subsequently appointed headmaster of the Park School, Invercargill. He held this position for twenty-two years, before receiving his present appointment. Mr Orr is a member of the local Presbyterian church, in which he often acts as lay preacher. He was married, in 1869, to a daughter of the late Mr Ewen McKenzie, of Glasgow, and has one son and four daughters.
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Mr. J. Orr.