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… at Feilding Agricultural High School. After working as a shepherd for his father, he saw war service in the Royal New …
Type: Biography
… Te Roroa's claim, it was not supported by Chief Judge G. P. Shepherd, who was presumably aware that the reserves were then in private ownership. In objecting that Shepherd was 'wrong in fact and law', Parore offered to …
Type: Biography
… Aplin and his wife, Edith Mary Woodhouse. He worked as a shepherd and farm labourer on Brancepeth station, near …
Type: Biography
… to the musket wars of the early 1820s. Horticulturist James Shepherd and his wife Harriet, who had nursing skills, …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Missions and missionaries
… to a son, James; the father was probably Stewart Gibb, a shepherd. The couple became engaged, and in order to improve …
Type: Biography
… to Australia in 1840. The brothers found employment as shepherds, and then bought two west Victoria runs, which …
Type: Biography
… settlers used horses for farm work such as ploughing and shepherding, and soon for recreational purposes. The …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural recreation
… to dominate the holding of sheep runs. The Scottish shepherd with his border collie was also a familiar figure …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Scots
… four to work on the family farm. He became a capable shepherd, drover and farmhand, and excelled at …
Type: Biography
… Ada Pike was born at Shepherd's Green, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, …
Type: Biography
… and George Rhodes. For two years Davidson worked as a shepherd on the huge estate of over 150,000 acres. He … he learned to control the daily round of hardy Scottish shepherds on about 60,000 acres of the higher country on the …
Type: Biography
… each day. He left when he was 13 to become a high-country shepherd at Glenisla. David Balfour's mother having died, …
Type: Biography
… with the baby on her back. The first night was spent in a shepherd's hut and the second beside a driftwood fire on …
Type: Biography
… grazeable part of the province. A transient workforce of shepherds, musterers, shearers and cooks underpinned the …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Marlborough region
… Scotland on the Christian McAusland . Most of the men were shepherds or tradesmen. The 32 single women comprised 24 …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Southland region
… the Girls' Friendly Society, the Order of the Good Shepherd, the Auckland Community Welfare Council and the …
Type: Biography
… a cousin, James McMichael. Livingston and McMichael were shepherding near Napier in 1867 when they bought 250 acres …
Type: Biography
… more temperate than Britain’s, so the British smock and the shepherd’s plaid fell out of use. The overalls that British …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Rural clothing
… on 11 September 1918, the son of John Robert Scott, a shepherd from Aberdeenshire, and his wife, Jean Reid, who …
Type: Biography
… arsenic. He killed several hundred, and nearly killed the shepherds as well. Treatment was by dipping the sheep in …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Diseases of sheep, cattle and deer