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… Māori and intermarriage The first rural families in New Zealand … There was some intermarriage between Europeans who took up farming and Māori women, especially in the early 19th … 3 On the east coast of both islands where there were large sheep-farming runs many single men were employed as …
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Part of story: Farm families
… Robert Wellwood was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, probably on 21 May 1836, into a Protestant farming family. His parents were Ann Proctor and her … of Members who count their acres by thousands and their sheep by hundreds of thousands. I am in favour of there …
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… had been viewed as parasitic, sucking the life out of the land. The popular adage that New Zealand ‘lives off the … activists retaliated with taunts of ‘country bumpkin’, and ‘sheep-shaggers’. Enduring bonds But some people recognised … children had farm holidays and had seen a cow milked or sheep mustered. Country children often went to boarding …
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Part of story: City images
… in eastern Otago is an unlikely setting for a sister and brother to become world radio pioneers. Margaret Brenda … Robinson. Alfred Bell was more interested in science than sheep. He set up what was probably the first telephone … interest in radio and took over the running of the family sheep station. His gregarious sister took over the wireless …
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… as Wescombe) was born at Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England, on 29 April 1836, the second child of Ann Wescombe and … to work at the brewery took a position as manager of a sheep station at Māhakipawa (Linkwater). During the … property at Taratahi (later Clareville) where he ran 300 sheep. In 1872 he built the Taratahi store, lived above it …
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… card games, have been popular among gamblers in New Zealand. In the 19th century playing cards for money was a … wealthy, poker, twenty-one, whist and loo were played by sheep-station owners and the urban elite in the gentlemen’s … long before this and in 1989 Paul Pedersen, a Whanganui sheep farmer, competed in the world poker championships in …
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Part of story: Cards, board games and puzzles
… fifth of the nine children of Ellen Augustine McElligott and her husband, George Yarra Bilston, an innkeeper who was … in which her childhood experience of cooking on a sheep station was put to good use. In 1919 her husband, then … worked as a cook for some years on several North Canterbury sheep stations, then in 1926 she settled in New Brighton and …
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… Ngāwini and Samuel Yates ran a large farm and general store in the … of their estates into pasture, which was soon stocked with sheep, horses and 2,000 head of cattle. Some 350 kauri-gum … she often took part in the musters of cattle and sheep. As Samuel grew older she assumed a more prominent …
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… plain below. At Featherston the hills part to reveal the land’s flatness and breadth. To the left are the blue-green … industry and employer. Previous over-reliance on livestock farming exposed the region to a boom–bust trading cycle, and … they colonised the landscape, many growing rich off the sheep’s back (wool) and the cow’s udder (milk, butter and …
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Part of story: Wairarapa region
… on 26 October 1850, the eldest child of Marjory (May) McRae and her husband, Alexander Mowat, a sheepfarmer at Altimarlock station in the Awatere valley, … more of a manager than her title of matron implied. When farming times were hard and wool prices low, the school …
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… For Pākehā, as for Māori, land ownership was the most important political issue in New … markets, on smaller holdings, took second place. Because sheep farmers wanted to invest most of their capital in … Even so, there was a widely held view that freehold family farming would and should eventually replace extensive …
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Part of story: Land ownership
… The Wakefield vision In the 1840s the New Zealand Company and its offshoots brought out thousands of migrants from … more lyrical: ‘the larks singing joyously over head, the sheep and cattle quietly grazing in the well fenced …
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Part of story: Rural mythologies
… Cape Rodney–Ōkakari Point Marine Reserve This is New Zealand’s first marine reserve (popularly called Goat Island Marine Reserve), and the site of the University of … During the 20th century, orchards made way for dairy and sheep farms. New Zealand’s main satellite communications …
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Part of story: Auckland places
… the famous 151-day industrial dispute between wharf workers and their employers. No coal was mined in the area for five … passed through present-day Mātīere. European settlers began farming the area in the early 1900s. Mātīere School serves … in 1906. The native forest was burned and felled and dairy, sheep and beef farms were established. Small-scale …
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Part of story: King Country places
… as Tom or Adolphus, was born at Aldermanbury, London, England, on 26 July 1824, the son of Rebecca Treacher and her … and 25 acres in bush. They built a cottage and started farming on what proved to be unsuitable land; the few … proficient in ploughing, driving bullocks and the care of sheep. By 1860 Bowden had left the farm to become secretary …
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… Randal Mathews Burdon was born at North Ambersham, near … 1902 the Burdons emigrated to New Zealand, establishing a sheep farm at Woodbury, Geraldine. Randal attended Waihī … He established a farm at Woodbury, and a high-country sheep run. While on leave at Woodbury two years previously …
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… Queen Victoria’s cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, then commander in chief of the British army. Like Hamilton, Cambridge … in the next few decades. Dairying was the main type of farming in the surrounding district, but sheep farming on the hill country, and horticulture, have …
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Part of story: Waikato places
… Pre-market economy The first people in New Zealand engaged in economic activity, producing and consuming … but also because most Māori lived north of Lake Taupō where sheep farming was not successful, except on the East Cape. …
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Part of story: Economic history
… the Steward', was born on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England, on 13 September 1813, the first child of William and Catherine Jenkins. Following his father's calling, … Pairoke's land at Wharemauku (Raumati), successfully farmed sheep, cattle and horses. But his most lucrative business …
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… Glenavy Settlement at the northern end of the main road and rail bridges over the Waitaki River. It was known until … Canterbury high country, with broad mountain landscapes. Sheep farming is the main activity. Kirkliston Range Mountain …
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Part of story: South Canterbury places