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He was educated at Otago Boys’ High School, and after training in the printing industry in Sydney 1916-1919 went into the family printing firm.
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John McIndoe
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After taking over the managemennt of the firm in 1924 he purchased colour printing machines, and the firm produced many items required for the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in 1925-1926. He understated his age to join the Army in World World War II, and sailed with the First Echelon in December 1939. Captured in Crete in 1941, he was a prisoner-of-war in Germany.
There he produced over 300 landscaopes, portraits and sketches, and held an exhibition of them in London when he was released in April 1945.
Postwar he produced mainly pastels of the Central Otago landscape. He was involved in several Dunedin clubs and societies: flying, swimming and surf lifesaving, serving on several organisations and on the Dunedin City Council 1931-1935.
He retired in 1961, and in 1973-1974 moved to what had been a holiday home near Mapua, Nelson. He died in Nelson.
