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Sir Clifford Skeggs : The Boy From Bluff
Paperback Edition: 1
Sir Cliff Skeggs was born in Bluff, Southland, in 1931. From an early age he had an entrepreneurial flair and after completing a ship and boat building apprentiship in Port Chalmers launched his own company, Skeggs Fisheries Ltd, in 1958.
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The fishing business escalated and over
the years the Skeggs Group diversified into many other areas such as property investment and development, food processing, farming and deer recovery, shipping, aviation, tourism and wine growing. Sir Cliff, who was knighted in 1987, also served as mayor of Dunedin from 1977 - 1989. He was a high profile chairman of both the Otago Harbour Board and Port Otago and is credited with spearheading a container port for Port Chalmers. But in spite of his success and his long pubilc involvement in the Otago region Sir Cliff has never forgotten his beginnings. To him Bluff is home and he will always consider himself "the boy from Bluff".
Pages : 146
Publisher : Skeggs Group Limited
Publication date : 2015-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Lifestyle, Sport And Leisure