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… Pukehou, Hawke's Bay, on 21 March 1875, the fourth child and only son of Hugh Campbell and his wife, Margaret … who died three years later. Hugh senior had managed sheep runs in Australia before joining his brother Henry at … from national politics, but remained active in local farming, business and community affairs. Saddened in his …
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… John Chambers was born at Heanor, Derbyshire, England, on 20 January 1819, the son of John Chambers, framework … as a blacksmith and possibly gaining some experience in farming. Emigrating to Australia, he resided initially in … in pastoral activities. Whether by means of his trade, by sheepfarming or perhaps by family assistance (Margaret …
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… Using the land Nineteenth-century Pākehā society was a world of … beautiful if it has good grass on it … if it is good for sheep, it is beautiful, magnificent, and all the rest; if … for gold, trees logged, and the plains cleared for sheep farming. There was an old Taranaki saying: ‘One blade of …
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Part of story: Perceptions of the landscape
… the fourth child of Irish Catholic parents James Larescey and his wife, Anne Haire. James had come to Victoria as a … struggle for the payment of a rate of £1 per hundred sheep. The sheep owners offered only 17s. 6d., and after many months of …
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… three daughters of Stanley Morell Macalister, a solicitor, and his wife, Catherine Holmes McQueen. A partner in the … left the college to be a land girl on her uncle’s sheep farm at Waikaka in Southland. During 1942–43 she … consummate small basalt carvings of a fish, a bird, a sheep and a Buddha. Molly Macalister died in Auckland on 12 …
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… in 1843 or 1844, at Downpatrick in County Down, Ireland, the son of John Ritchie, a farmer, and his wife Eliza … Katene Te Raki. This was the beginning of the first sheep run on the Chathams and of Ritchie's 59-year residence … He and his brother, Robert, eventually ran some 16,000 sheep on 55,000 acres – about a third of the total land area …
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… Guthrie-Smith was born William Herbert Smith in Scotland, at Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, on 13 March 1862. He … They began in South Canterbury, learning the basics of sheepfarming from their uncle, George Dennistoun, at Peel Forest …
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… information John Williams Harris was born in Cornwall, England, in 1808. He joined the Royal Navy while still a boy, … about 10 years there, working in a counting-house and on a sheep station. But it was his work with the merchant J. B. … in Hawke's Bay. Harris was active in early pastoral farming and for 20 years had the biggest holding on the …
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… Eketāhuna Small service town between southern and northern Wairarapa. Set on terraces above the Makakahi … bush and build roads. As the land was cleared, dairying and sheep farming developed. The town became a borough in 1907. ‘Eke’ …
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Part of story: Wairarapa places
… on 23 January 1843 at Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire, England, the daughter of Matthew Budge, a labourer, and his … road access. A jetty built at the Whangamoa estuary enabled sheep and cattle to be landed from small boats. Young and … to visit. Elizabeth Mackay was a full partner in the farming activities, owning 125 acres in her own right. Her …
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… ) Wild ginger or ginger lily is originally from India and was first grown in New Zealand gardens in the 1920s. It grows to head-height, with a … eat it, they may suffer cirrhosis of the liver, and die. Sheep are less prone to being poisoned by it when grazing, …
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Part of story: Weeds of the bush
… at the foot of 757-metre Mt Ngongotahā. Parawai, Waikuta and Waitetī marae are found here. The name refers to the … he had climbed the mountain. In 1939, P. H. Castleton landscaped the springs at the headwaters of the Ngongotahā … visit to see displays of farm livestock, especially sheep. Hamurana and Hamurana Springs Settlement and …
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Part of story: Volcanic Plateau places
… grown for grazing or haymaking. It is commonly used in dryland pastures, as its taproots can extract water from deep in … this allows carbohydrate reserves to build up for regrowth and persistence. Lucerne should then be rotationally grazed … – and that also reduce the effects of internal parasites in sheep and cattle. Resistant to some serious pasture pests, …
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Part of story: Pastures
… How many New Zealanders are there? The population of New Zealand reached four … A diminishing flock At one time there were about 20 sheep for each New Zealander. But while the human population has grown to five million, the number of sheep has dwindled. These days they outnumber people by …
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Part of story: Society
… changed dramatically after the 1970s, when most New Zealand meat was still exported as frozen carcasses. At that time Britain was the largest market for sheep meat, with the United States the largest for beef. … Among New Zealand’s new export markets are those requiring sheep to be killed according to Islamic law, with a single …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… October 1901, the second of six children of Helen Eva Bligh and her husband, Henri Lissaman, a sheepfarmer. She was brought up on her father's sheep … Europe in 1958. Around 1966 the Halls finally retired from farming and moved into Morrinsville, where Elizabeth …
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… 1880 in Dunedin or Oamaru. His parents, Leonard Cockayne and Maria Maude Blakeley, married in February 1881. Leonard … New Zealand's temperate climate would sustain grass-based sheep and cattle farming without the reliance on fodder crops so much in …
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… McKay was born probably at Putataka, Waikato Heads, New Zealand, in 1842, the third child of John Horton McKay, a … and to supply meals to the public. The lure of gold and farming attracted William and Catherine Carran with their … the wars of the north, the goldrush, pioneering on a sheep run and small farms, and acting as midwife and nurse …
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… trails from rural Italy to several locations in New Zealand. These would characterise Italian immigration until the … became a major tomato-growing community. Taranaki: dairy farming In the early 1890s a group of South Island gold … orchards, farming), and from Stromboli to D’Urville Island (sheep farming). Early migrants from Florence and Tuscany …
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Part of story: Italians
… is a large area of open space intended for the use of town and city dwellers in a particular region. Regional parks are … a wide range of functions, including recreation, farming, forestry, water management, heritage and … landowner, but also the largest farmer. It has 8,400 sheep and 950 cattle in its parks, most notably in Awhitu …
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Part of story: City parks and green spaces