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… up Mesopotamia in the upper Rangitātā Valley in 1860. Good shepherds Sheep could not have been managed on the vast … a stone plinth – was built close to the Church of the Good Shepherd at Tekapo. Another memorial, at Dog Kennel Corner, …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… do not support this view. Selecting for colour As shepherds need to see a dog at long distances, the preferred …
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Part of story: Farm dogs
… many sealers, whalers, flax traders, gold prospectors or shepherds ventured far into the bush. Most of the written …
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Part of story: European exploration
… and additions to church buildings. The Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, in Christchurch (1884), the first … Church, Avonside. The belfry of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, was erected in his memory. …
Type: Biography
… a ‘South Sea Island native’ known as Jack was working as a shepherd in Southland, while in North Otago around the same …
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Part of story: South Pacific peoples
… in this country is the Labrador retriever, with the German shepherd next in line. The least popular is the chihuahua. …
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Part of story: Pets
… and national finals around June (winter). There are shepherds’ trials and maiden dog trials for less experienced …
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Part of story: Farm dogs
… Dick: adventures and contemplations of a New Zealand shepherd (published anonymously in 1891), and A south-sea … Jones. Through a series of experiences, first as a cadet shepherd on Marino station and then as clerk to the district …
Type: Biography
… On 31 December 1858, at Auckland, he married Cecilia Mary Shepherd, the daughter of Alexander Shepherd, the first colonial treasurer. The O'Rorkes built a …
Type: Biography
… February 1875 and went on to win the respect of runholders, shepherds and workers by sharing their hardships and …
Type: Biography
… on the banks of the Whareama River while Isaac worked as a shepherd for runholder Henry Buxton. In 1857 twins were born …
Type: Biography
… of New Zealand farming. Early runholders employed shepherds to keep sheep within properties. By the 1880s …
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Part of story: Agricultural and horticultural research
… included the St Barnabas' Association and Order of the Good Shepherd, and the Girls' Friendly Society which gave …
Type: Biography
… detailed plans to bring in Chinese to work as servants, shepherds, stock-keepers, mechanics and manual workers. But …
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Part of story: Chinese
… coastal strip, had scarcely been farmed. Two Highland shepherds were the sole employees. Edward had no one to … way, and on arrival immediately go out on the land with the shepherds. In the early years at Te Awaiti, Edward Riddiford …
Type: Biography
… dogs. A mustering team usually comprised the station’s head shepherd and four to six contracted musterers. The packman …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… whare. The large communal accommodation building for single shepherds and station hands was called the station whare, …
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Part of story: Rural language
… – Holy Cross and the Marist Seminary – and also the Good Shepherd national theological college, all in Auckland. In …
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Part of story: Catholic Church
… body was the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) in London. While shepherds watched their flocks Cricket probably evolved in … that to break the boredom of watching their flocks, shepherds lobbed stones or hunks of matted wool at a …
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Part of story: Cricket
… Grierson Robertson and her husband, Alexander Gunn, a shepherd. He attended primary school at Hakataramea and at …
Type: Biography