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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1919, Page 5

A link with the very earliest days .0 settlement in the Mataura Valley aiw Wakatipu districts was snapped las Tuesday when Mr. Donald Camwron die( with the Old Year at his home at Nokiv mai. Mr. Cameron was born in Fori William, Scotland, in 1835, so that hj« was eighty-three years of age. Having spent some years in business in Glasgow lie emigrated to Australia in 1854. FOl eorae time hj« was manager of a run known as Mount Sturgeon Plaint Station, which was the property of his uncle —Mr. Alex. Cameron, popularly known in South Australia as "the King of Panola." He arrived In New Zealand in 1869. He had once visited the Wakatipu di»» trict, where he selected the run on which he lived for Bixty years. One of the flrot white men to behold the scenic wonders of the Cold Lakes district, it' was his privilege to suggest the names that have long since become known to lover* ef th' beautiful In Nature throughout Austra' aaia and far beyond the iboundariee 1 these southern lands. Ben Nevis, Lochy River, Nevis River, the Devil's Staircase, etc., were named by him after their prr tatsittft la LoitabflSLi&d fiflattiftii