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| | Angus MacKay: First Mayor of Dannevirke, New Zealand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | ANGUS MACKAY, the first Mayor of Dannevirke, was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, in the year 1820, his father having been a builder and farmer from Sutherlandshire, Scotland. |
 | | Mr MacKay then entered on bridge building on his own account, his first contract being at Clive, over the Ngaruroro River, and he was subsequently employed as inspector of the railway under construction between Woodville and Matamau. |
 | | Mr MacKay was also chairman of the School Committee for several years, was a member of the Domain Board, and was elected to the Licensing Committee at the head of the poll in his own district. |
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