Tom Turner, Jack Annand, Willie Hughes and Robert Blair

Robert Blair, who also laboured in New Zealand, was born at Otokia, near Dunedin N.Z. in 1874 and died in 1942.  After selling some property left him in Scotland, he started out in the work in England, remaining two years before going to N.Z. where he was for several years, was for a time in Fiji, Samoa and Norfolk Isles, returning to Queensland where after 11 years he died.  He wrote Nos. 185,  195,  235,  274 and 277.  When he was in Exeter he pulled out a scrap of paper from his waistcoat pocket and asked another worker he met there if the verses he had written on it would do for a hymn, iIt is now our No. 276.

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Albums

• Workers & Conventions by Country -- 36 Albums / Australia / Queensland