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… in the 1850s owed more to the export of merino wool and to the unexpected development of a market for the … colonists with capital in the 1850s chose to invest it in sheep flocks on distant pastoral leaseholds rather than purchase the freeholds of arable farming estates near Christchurch. In the later 1850s and …
… Plains south of Dunedin are an area of fertile sheep, fat-lamb, and dairy farms, but the richest farming districts are included within Bruce and Clutha …
… into three distinct parts: the back country, the plains, and the Sounds. The back country is composed of ranges, … are largely tussock covered and extensively farmed in large sheep runs. The average area of holdings in Awatere county … areas of plain. Around Blenheim and Seddon mixed arable farming is the principal land use. Lambs are fattened and …
… in 1853, some 2 million acres in the western North Island were assigned to the “Province of New Plymouth”, the … gave the smallholder a secure income from a type of farming adapted to Taranaki conditions. The pioneer farmer … PROVINCE AND PROVINCIAL DISTRICT …
… western bank of the Arrow River in an area of small hills and flats between the head of the Frankton arm of Lake … miles south-east. The main rural activities are extensive sheep farming on the hill country, with sheep fattening and …
… is situated at the northern part of the Wairarapa Valley and in the upper basin of the Ruamahanga River. The Waipoua … Carterton is 9 miles south-west by road or rail. The chief farming activity of the district is sheep raising. There is a limited amount of dairying. Lime …
… The coastal lowlands stretch from Patea to Bulls and extend inland for 5 to … coastal lowlands are unquestionably one of the richest farming areas of the southern part of the North Island, a … country are borne out by the statistics for the increase in sheep and lambs shorn in the period 1951–52 to 1959–60. For …
… rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) was introduced for sport and food, and perhaps also as a part of the British … faster because there were no large forested areas; sheep farming had cleared tussock and bush, and the climate was … exports. But the economic waste caused by displacement of sheep and the effect of rabbits on vegetation and soils have …
… In 1948 the land laws were amended and consolidated in a Land Act which … underlying principle that a secure tenure is the basis of farming progress. The new legislation reconstituted the Land … Present-day Land Policy and Development …
… There was little flat land in the new province of Hawke's Bay. The only extensive … and Tukituki Rivers were most readily adaptable to sheep farming in the early days; Donald McLean himself … Early Problems of Land Settlement …