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… Opotiki is situated between the mouths of the Waioeka and Otara Rivers where they enter the head of Opotiki … the nearest railhead, is 31 miles south-west. The main farming activities of the district are sheep and cattle raising, dairying, and agricultural …
… Matamata is situated on level land, locally called Matamata Plain, a broad valley floor in … miles south-east; and Tauranga, 38½ miles north-east. Dairy farming, the predominant rural activity of the district, is associated with sheep farming and cattle fattening. Matamata is chiefly a …
… Kaikohe is situated in the North Auckland Peninsula almost midway between the Hokianga Harbour on … passes through the town. The district supports a variety of farming activities including sheep, cattle, and dairy farming, and market gardening. …
… Introduction Although New Zealand is a small country and the area of first-class land … is obtained by a concentration on livestock products. Dairy farming generally gives the highest net return per acre of … all the fine wool. The management of the high-country sheep run is fairly specialised, the carrying capacity of …
… Alexandra is located on almost level land at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers. … river flats in the vicinity of Alexandra are utilised for sheep farming and fruitgrowing. Fruit packing is an … ALEXANDRA …
… (1804–94). Surgeon-superintendent to the Plymouth Company and diarist. Weekes was born at Barnstaple, Devonshire, in 1804, and took up medicine, gaining his M.R.C.S. and, in 1836, a … newly married wife to Auckland in 1845, where they began sheep farming on Puketutu Island, but in 1849, disgusted by …
… high bush-clad hills. The flat lies open to the north-west and extends out 1 to 3 miles to the shores of Westland … main rural activities are now sawmilling, lime-crushing, and farming, including dairying and sheep and cattle raising. Two sawmills are working …
… high hills that form a watershed between Lake Waikaremoana and the coastal lowlands of northern Hawke's Bay. The … north-west. The main primary industry of the district is sheep raising. Cattle raising and dairy farming are also practised and there is some fruit growing …
… Road transport, both of passengers and of goods, plays a vital part in the economic life of … which stand out were the growth of settlement, the type of farming practised, gold discoveries, the vehicles used, the … and giving little surplus for exchange. The advent of sheep set the pattern for change, and their movement saw …
… (1824–1904). Barrister, sheep farmer, and politician. J. B. A. Acland was a son of Sir Thomas Dyke … and Tripp, who are inseparable in the story of high-country farming, both abandoned law as a profession and embarked for … ACLAND, John Barton Arundel …