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… George Edward appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. George Edward Mannering was born … July 1862. His father, T. S. Mannering, arrived in New Zealand from England in 1852 and took up sheep farming. Mannering was brought up at Fernside Station from …
… narrow coastal plain between the Tararua Range on the east and the sea coast on the west. The North Island Main Trunk … market gardening, commercial flower growing, poultry farming, and sheep raising. Much of Wellington's whole-milk supply …
… lower Clutha basin on the Matau branch of the Clutha River and 4 miles upstream from the mouth. The town site is level, … 4 miles north, on the South Island Main Trunk line. Sheep and dairy farming are the principal rural activities. Coal mining is …
… Stream, a west-bank tributary of the Waipa River, and about 2 miles north of the entrance to the Mangaokewa … and 53 miles north-west from Taumarunui (48 miles by rail). Sheep raising is the main farming activity of the district, but dairying and cattle …
… Waimate is situated about 7 miles inland from the coast of South Canterbury and on the … and 28 miles north-east from Oamaru (33 miles by rail). Sheep raising is the main primary industry of the district. Other farming activities include large-scale potato growing; …
… Patea River, near the mouth, the main part of the town standing on flat land behind coastal sandhills. The surrounding country is … of the river and close to the railway and wharves. Dairying and sheep farming are the main rural activities. According …
… north of Wellington. Both the Wellington-North motorway and the North Island Main Trunk railway pass through the … they were succeeded by the Fraser brothers, who introduced sheep into New Zealand on their Mana Island and Porirua … as a port. Since then the district has developed as a farming centre. A small village grew up at Porirua after …
… During the past decade the number of sheep shorn increased by 31.44 per cent, a figure close to the national rate of 29.82 per cent, and the number of lambs shorn increased by 303.78 per cent … of agricultural products or providing for the needs of the farming community. The structure of Bluff's trade is that of …
… H. A. Atkinson, scaled down the level of borrowing and spending during his 12-months' ministry. This made him … more people left the country than arrived. Large-scale farming did not supply enough jobs to defeat unemployment – … the years after 1884 hold out much hope for the small man. Sheep farming did not absorb labour. Town industry, and such …
… The city lies on the coastal plain, but to the north-west and south-east this is reduced to a narrow strip by the … industry. Although there is some dairying and poultry farming, the predominant rural activity of the district is sheep farming, together with an increasing number of beef …