AIKMAN, JOHN CAMPBELL (?-?) came to Canterbury with his brothers in the first years of the settlement and took up Mount Fourpeaks station in 1858, selling it a year or two later. They had a wharf at Heathcote before the railway was constructed and when freight was brought by sea over the bar at Sumner. Aikman represented Heathcote in the Canterbury Provincial Council (1863-65). He was afterwards in business in Christchurch as an auctioneer and was a lieutenant in the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry. His home was in Aikman's road, which was named after him.

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Reference: Volume 1, page 19

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