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… Featherston is situated on flat land in the Wairarapa Valley near the junction of the Tararua … by rail and 23 miles by road. The main rural activities are sheep and dairy farming. At South Featherston, 2 miles to the south, there …
… employed J. McDonald to make some newsreels on New Zealand subjects to send overseas. The Government Photography … 1923, made several films, such as Flax Growing at Foxton and Milling Kauri Timber . It then became a part of the … Lake (Wakatipu), Snowline is Their Boundary (high-country sheep farming), and Skyhigh in New Zealand (the Mount Cook …
… Gordon Herriot appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Gordon Herriot Cunningham was … on 27 August 1892 at Moa Flat, a Central Otago high-country sheep station where his father was manager. After attending … and in Australia, gaining extensive practical experience in sheep farming, fruitgrowing, and forestry. During the First …
… The pastoral economy was established upon a system of farming that was frankly exploitative and destructive of the environment. The insubstantial basis …
… Pukekohe is situated 31 miles south of Auckland by road and 5 miles west of the Bombay Hills. To the … gardening. Potatoes and onions are grown extensively. Dairy and sheep farming are also important. Pukekohe is a servicing and …
… Paper currency in use in New Zealand comprises bank notes issued by the Reserve Bank of New … the design on the back is an engraving of a New Zealand sheep-farming scene. Over the years there has been a distinct …
… Land companies in the Waikato were closely bound up with the … after three years and had to be broken up again. Dairy farming was impracticable in the 1880s and the return from sheep and beef cattle, especially the latter, was limited; … Waikato Land Companies …
… is situated on the shores of Poverty Bay where the Taruheru and Waimata Rivers join to form the Turanganui River. To the … of the district include market gardening, dairying, and sheep and cattle farming. Kumaras, pumpkins, and maize are cultivated around …
… The wealth of Canterbury lies in the plains; the mountains and the foothills have the scenery, the romance, and the problems, for there the older extensive farming systems have persisted almost unchanged and in an … burning to produce fresh green shoots palatable to the sheep. The consequence has been invasion by less palatable …
… country is alluvial plain. About 6 miles to the north and north-east of the town the land rises to the hilly … by rail). The main rural activities of the district are sheep raising, mixed farming, and dairying. There is a butter factory at Rata (12 …