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… but it was said that during a strong nor-wester a shepherd’s dog refused to cross. The dog obviously knew …
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Part of story: Bridges and tunnels
… asylums were filled with country people – sometimes shepherds driven mad by loneliness. Others noted that it was …
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Part of story: City images
… of his ministry: 'The sheep of the flock, of which you are shepherd, are of two colours – European and Maories, and you …
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… generally by people in the course of their work. Hunters, shepherds, surveyors, bushmen and pioneer farmers all needed …
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Part of story: Camping
… On his return from the war he worked as a teamster and shepherd, then in 1923 acquired his own farm at Rankleburn, …
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… Ann McIntyre (née McFadyen) and her husband, William Rae, a shepherd, who was later a farmer. After attending Greenhills …
Type: Biography
… Victorian policeman to transform Chief Constable John Shepherd's small force into an armed and disciplined … of reinforcements from Melbourne, Branigan swept aside Shepherd's emergency provisions, determined to replicate the …
Type: Biography
… sheep, the remnant of a flock which has forsaken the shepherd’. 1 Church constitution While Anglicans carried …
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Part of story: Anglican Church
… of Frances Horrell and her husband, Daniel Mulholland, a shepherd who later farmed at Darfield. Walter (as he was …
Type: Biography
… and murder as well.' The gruesome murder of one of his shepherds determined him to leave. He bought a 200-ton brig …
Type: Biography
… Bush Inn because he was tired of being disturbed by drunken shepherds. In 1865 he retired to Woodside, near Greytown, …
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… high level of binge drinking. Many men in frontier jobs – shepherds, boundary watchers or bush fellers – worked miles …
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Part of story: Alcohol
… When clerical work palled, he worked for some years as a shepherd on a station near Castlepoint. In 1919, aged 20, he …
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… in Buckle Street, Wellington. The Sisters of the Good Shepherd were brought to Christchurch in 1886 to care for …
Type: Biography
… without compensation, for a hydroelectric scheme. G. P. Shepherd, under-secretary for the Native Department, …
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… Vinegar Hill, near St Bathans, later extending it to nearby Shepherds Flat. In partnership with St Bathans storekeeper …
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… After leaving home at 16 he became an accomplished shepherd and drover. Gudgeon was managing a farm near …
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… pasture grasses and breeds of sheep, the intricacies of shepherding and droving, foot-rot and stock trails, …
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… Scotland, on 11 April 1841. His family were of Calvinist shepherd stock, although his father, William Sloane McKay, …
Type: Biography