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- Home address: Maritanga Station, Kokonga, Central Otago, New Zealand
Commenced his career gaining agricultural and pastoral experience with Donald Macdonald on Edendale Estate for two years. Joined Mosgiel Woollen Mills, where he gained experience in wool classing and then as sub-manager to Malvern Downs Ltd., owners of Morven Hills and Malvern Downs stations, where he remained two years. Also worked on Te Akatarawa and Black Forest stations.
Purchased Glenroy Station on Kawarau River and sold same seven years later.
Acquired his present property, Maritanga Station, situated on the Maniatoto Plains, where he specialises in agriculture, dairying and Corriedale sheep.
Justice of the Peace, Sheep farmer, Owner of Maritanga Station, Kokonga, Central Otago, New Zealand. Member Executive, representing Otago Branch, New Zealand Sheepowners' Federation; President 1935, Otago and Southland Sheepowners' Industrial Union of Employers; Member, New Zealand Farmers Union; President, Maniatoto Ratepayers Association; Member Otago Chamber of Commerce; Member Otago, Taieri, Maniatoto, and Royal Agricultural and Pastoral Associations. Elected to the Committee of the NZ Meat Producers Board representing Otago, 1932, 1933, 1935.
He served in Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force in WW1
Edgar Thomson Shand (28 February 1891-15 January 1938 aged 47). He was an farmer who owned Maritanga Station near Kokonga in Central Otago. He served in the Royal Flying Corps (17 Squadron) during the First World War. His parents were David Thomson Shand (died 23 October 1926 aged 66) and Mary (nee Johnstone) Shand and his grandfather was William Shand (died 5 September 1870 aged 71) who arrived in Otago in 1857 on the George Canning. My maternal grandmother was Margaret Rattray Douglas (5 April 1897-25 November 1978 aged 81), daughter of John Fleming Douglas (died 20 May 1909 aged 43) and Marian Rankin, and granddaughter of John Douglas (1829-1903 aged 74).
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