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The death of Mr John Anderson, of Waiwera South, who passed away in Dunedin this week, removes a most interesting link with the very earliest history of the Otago settlement. His father and mother arrived at Port Chalmers from Nelson on December 30, 1844, and moved to Anderson's Bay, which they named, early in 1845. The romantic circumstances under which they lived until the arrival of Mr C.H. Kettle's surveying party in February, 1846, are carefully described in Dr Hocken's “Early History of New Zealand.” Mr Anderson got immediate employment among the surveyors, and built a small house. On December 10, 1846, was born his son John, who was thus the first white child born in the vicinity of Dunedin. Mr Anderson had long been farming in the Waiwera district and is survived by a large number of descendants.