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… He crossed the Waiau River at night with the help of a shepherd, but finding his way home alone the next day he had …
Type: Biography
… depression Tom returned home to work from 1931 to 1933 as a shepherd on his family’s farm, Seaward Valley, near …
Type: Biography
… people should visit New South Wales to learn the skills of shepherds (a meeting with the influential sheepbreeder John …
Type: Biography
… fell in love with an Australian airline pilot, Beverley Shepherd. When he proposed, she broke off her engagement to … In February 1937 she returned to Sydney to be reunited with Shepherd, whom she was to have married later that year. …
Type: Biography
… a more critical view. Philosopher Dick is about an educated shepherd who is out of place on a high-country sheep …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Fiction
… William Swainson , the colonial treasurer, Alexander Shepherd, and the colonial secretary, Andrew Sinclair . He …
Type: Biography
… rural apprenticeship typical of the region, beginning as a shepherd before advancing slowly to run a croft and … McKenzie later quipped that his time as a hill-country shepherd provided ideal training for the job of …
Type: Biography
… Studies in biology for New Zealand students , dealing with shepherd's purse, the bean plant, mussels, and the skeleton …
Type: Biography
… inherited a difficult office. His predecessor, Judge G. P. Shepherd, on the eve of his retirement apologised for the …
Type: Biography
… man he worked as a navvy, bushman, drain-digger, fencer, shepherd, shearer and bullock-driver; what English he knew …
Type: Biography
… The third of five sons of William John Wattie, a shepherd, and his wife, Annie Elizabeth Jifkins, he grew up …
Type: Biography
… the Aparima River and Lake Manapōuri, and was employed as a shepherd at Puketoi station and later at Scobie Mackenzie 's …
Type: Biography
… Immigrants arrived at regular intervals – gardeners, shepherds, ploughmen and domestics. Ormond took personal …
Type: Biography
… He married Jane Augusta Griffith, stepdaughter of Alexander Shepherd, the colonial treasurer, at St Paul's Church, …
Type: Biography
… materials from Sydney and, in 1840–41, brought labourers, shepherds, stockmen and mechanics to New Zealand at his own …
Type: Biography
… 7 April 1855. He was the youngest of seven children of Mary Shepherd and her husband, William Cockayne, a well-to-do …
Type: Biography
… non-fiction works for adults included histories such as The shepherd and the scullery maid (1950) and The gaoler …
Type: Biography
… Automatically a member of the Native Affairs Committee, he shepherded various petitions through it. Many of his efforts …
Type: Biography