The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Mr. James Robertson
Mr. James Robertson , Cheese-maker at the Factory and Secretary of the Company, was born at Mackars-town, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1869, and came to New Zealand with his parents in 1873. He was educated at Woodlands, and in 1892 started work at the dairy factory there. He afterwards worked, successively, at Waimea Plains and Otamita, and returned to the Waimea Plains Factory in 1900. Mr Robertson is a member of the Presbyterian church choir at Riversdale.