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… Stephen Shepherd Allen was born at Cheadle, Staffordshire, England, … on 2 August 1882, the seventh of ten children of MP William Shepherd Allen and his wife, Elizabeth Penelope Candlish, … Allen, Stephen Shepherd …
Type: Biography
… Roger Shepherd Duff was born in Invercargill on 11 July 1912, the … Duff, Roger Shepherd …
Type: Biography
… farms were slowly cut out of the bush. Runholders and shepherds Huge sheep runs were developed in the open tussock …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… Runholders and shepherds, blacksmiths, shearers, cooks, roadmen and hawkers …
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… built, many sheep escaped the watchful eyes of boundary shepherds who patrolled sheep run boundaries to keep stock … Sunday dog, a lazy worker. Boundary dogs, also known as dog shepherds, fence dogs and gate dogs, are chained on the …
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Part of story: Rural language
… instance, positions continue to be advertised for single shepherds, shepherds-general (who also do fencing and tractor work), … live with their wives in married accommodation), and head shepherds (stock managers next in line to the farm manager). …
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Part of story: Rural language
… 1843, the son of Ann Tait and her husband, Donald Grant, a shepherd. With an older brother, Andrew, William set out for … Tripp of Orari Gorge station was at the port looking for shepherds for his run in South Canterbury. Observing a …
Type: Biography
… because special efforts were made to recruit Scottish shepherds. Highlanders and Lowlanders Few immigrants were … and 1870 because of Canterbury’s recruitment of Highland shepherds, the settlement of Waipū, and the gold rushes. …
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Part of story: Scots
… 1847, the daughter of Mary McKenzie and Walter Ormiston, a shepherd. She married Robert Mackay, a shepherd, at Dalharald, Strathnaver, Sutherland, on 29 …
Type: Biography
… of Caddell until 1826, when he was interviewed by Thomas Shepherd, who was agricultural superintendent on Captain J. Herd's New Zealand Company expedition. Shepherd described Caddell as being very much tattooed but …
Type: Biography
… flockmasters, land barons, mutton lords, sheep lords, shepherd kings, wool kings, wool lords and wool barons. … butterdoms, cow kingdoms, dairydoms, ferndoms, sheepdoms, shepherd dynasties, tussockdoms and kingdoms in the hills. …
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Part of story: Rural language
… units with sleeping quarters and outside runs. Some shepherds prefer a dog to be chained to a single, … laid for vermin is a very serious risk to farm dogs, so a shepherd’s knowledge of first aid can be crucial when …
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Part of story: Farm dogs
… store stock (stock ready for fattening) are grazed. Paddock shepherds and hill shepherds have distinct roles – one former musterer …
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Part of story: Rural language
… with or without white. Border collie Imported by the first shepherds from the Scottish borders, the border collie is … of border collie taken to Australia by early British shepherds. DNA testing has revealed that they are also …
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Part of story: Farm dogs
… the son of Margaret Tait and her husband, Henry Little, a shepherd descended from early Presbyterian Covenanters who … had ordered the Romneys, and he now employed Little as shepherd and then manager. The longwool Romneys were not …
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… The station overseer, John Sidebottom, and two Māori shepherds had tracked the missing sheep to an inland pass in … feats of his fabulous dog, his extraordinary ability as a shepherd, drover and thief, and his rebellious spirit. In …
Type: Biography
… Island, and worked on large sheep runs before becoming head shepherd on the Mokomoko station. McIntyre and his dogs … of early morning mustering and the use of scrim for shepherding ewes and lambs into yards. During the First …
Type: Biography
… England, 22% from Ireland and 20% from Scotland. Scottish shepherds were encouraged to emigrate to work on … grazing sheep on leased land remained the norm. The laconic shepherd with his dogs and the autumn muster became key …
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Part of story: Canterbury region
… English-born William Duff and his Scottish wife, Margaret Shepherd. His parents had kept a general store at Waitāhuna … 'Sundowner', he wrote a weekly column for the Listener , 'Shepherd's Calendar', from which a selection under the same …
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… Zealand concentrates on stranded whales. The stranding of a Shepherd’s beaked whale ( Tasmacetus shepherdi ), also known as the Tasman beaked whale, allowed … whale was first discovered and named in 1933 by George Shepherd, curator of the Wanganui Museum, who collected a …
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Part of story: Whales