BLAIR, JOHN, was apprenticed to a bookseller in Edinburgh before coming to Otago in the Dunedin (1855). He took up land at Kaikorai and later in life had a property at Owaka, but was for 16 years teaching at Green Island. He was an elder of the church and a member of the road board and represented Green Island in the Provincial Council (1863-67). Blair was a writer of pleasing verse and contributed regularly to the Otago Witness. A volume of Lays of the Old Identities was published in 1889.

Cycl. NZ, iv.

Reference: Volume 1, page 52

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