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… line. A 1972–74 plan for a substantial ‘new town’ was abandoned, but Rolleston has since grown fast. Between 2006 … as a college in 1878 to provide a practical education in farming. The original Ivey Hall, now surrounded by modern … historic site. At the college scientists developed new sheep breeds and wheat crosses. Students now also train for …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Kaitāia Northernmost town in New Zealand, with a 2013 population of 4,887. Kaitāia is the commercial and service centre for a rural area farming mostly sheep, cattle and dairy cattle. Local industry is mainly the … Kaitāia and district …
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Part of story: Northland places
… two months before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and died as the treaty's centennial was being celebrated. … a toi thatched roof. They were largely self-sufficient, farming a few cows and about 60 sheep, tending poultry and a garden, and harvesting the fish …
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… New Zealand’s economic activity is largely based on its natural environment. For example, agriculture, tourism and power generation all depend upon the environment. … Zealand as an idyllic pastoral land for the production of sheep, cattle, apples and honey. During the 1940s the cover …
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Part of story: Economy and the environment
… New Zealand has produced classical musicians – both instrumentalists and singers – whose achievements have been equivalent to the … who made her debut last evening comes from the land of the sheep, and she bleated like one of them’. 1 But within a …
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Part of story: Classical musicians
… co-existed with many Māori. By 1870 trade between Māori and Pākehā had waned, and the missions had closed. Bay of Plenty became a … Bay of Plenty did not prosper. Farmers could not run large sheep flocks because the climate was too mild and moist, the …
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Part of story: Bay of Plenty region
… the first roads were often muddy tracks among long ferns and flax. Women, more then men, had to modify their clothes to protect them from mud and water. They attached removable and washable braids or … habits. Lady Mary Anne Barker, who lived on a Canterbury sheep station in the 1860s, advised emigrants against …
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Part of story: Rural clothing
… (Īhakara) was born on 30 March 1895 at The Neck, Stewart Island. Her mother, Maryanne (Mereana) Louise Mapepe Isaac, was … of Ngāi Tahu , with descent lines also from Ngāti Mamoe and Waitaha. Martha’s father, Walter Bruce Joss, was second … for the family of David Warren, a local dairy farmer and sheep breeder, who gave her two cows and second-hand …
Type: Biography
… Pitcastle, in the Strathtay district of Perthshire, Scotland, the third son of Donald Reid, a farmer, and his wife, … and turned the estate into a model of contemporary mixed farming. At first the main activity was growing wheat and … power for harvesting. By the mid 1860s Reid was grazing sheep and cattle on sown pasture. In 1882 Reid owned …
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… By the early 1800s New Zealand was already a busy international trader, exporting seal … In the 1870s New Zealand exports centred on non-perishable sheep products (wool and tallow), native timber and gold. … New Zealand could produce. This spurred the development of farming to meet the demand. Within five years at least 170 …
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Part of story: Overseas trade policy
… from plants – from above ground (leaves, branches, stems) and below (roots). The soil contains a teeming mass of life … 640 to 3,000 kilograms per hectare. Compare this with 15 sheep per hectare, weighing about 800 kilograms in total. … of grazing animals on hill-country pasture is also less. Farming: impact on numbers and diversity When farmland is …
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Part of story: Earthworms
… to the stock of physical capital, in the form of buildings and plant, machinery, and equipment for use in the production of other goods and … determinant of the rate of economic growth of an economy. Sheep disinvestment Low prices and rising production costs …
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Part of story: Investment
… halls, sports clubs, stockyards or A & P (agricultural and pastoral) association meetings. Small towns were … access to books or libraries until the 1930s. Some wealthy sheep farmers had private libraries, and societies and clubs … in small towns sometimes had collections of books. For many farming people, however, books were a luxury. Even if people …
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Part of story: Rural services
… William Edgar Hazlett was a dominant figure in farming, thoroughbred breeding and racing in Southland for more than 30 years. His father, … high country properties. He ran Hereford cattle and Romney sheep, which were noted for their quality. Starting with …
Type: Biography
… Soft-rock hill country Two types of landslide are common in New Zealand’s hill country, particularly in the North Island – … its huge corrugations smothering and smashing the wretched sheep, half or wholly burying them in every posture.’ 1 … Hill country, regolith and submarine landslides …
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Part of story: Landslides
… Alps, South Canterbury lies in the middle of the South Island, on the east coast. Its principal city, Timaru, is … The region’s economy is based on agriculture – mainly sheep and cattle farming, dairying and cropping. South Canterbury’s …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… An expanding sector By the start of the 20th century farmers were served by at least 40 regional and national agencies, ranging from one-man bands to … a football maniac, an authority on astrology, dogs, cats, sheep, cattle, horses, all types of leases, water rights and …
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Part of story: Stock and station agencies
… a stop to long-distance migration. Ships were not available and travel was dangerous. The net increase of population … people were to be trained as farmers. Funded by New Zealand sheep farmers, it was intended as repayment of a debt of … Kiwis. Three in ten came from Scotland , where along with farming the older industries such as shipbuilding were in …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… Irāia Te Whāiti, also known as Irāia Te Ama and Te Ama-o-te-rangi, was born in south Wairarapa, probably … Te Pōtangaroa , when, as a service to his people, he began farming his ancestral land in 1881. That year, on 1 November … acres; at this time Whatarangi station carried some 20,000 sheep and nearly 500 cattle. Te Whāiti employed a number of …
Type: Biography
… roots in Scottish soil. He was the son of Frances Pillans and her husband, David Davidson of the Bank of British North … the huge estate of over 150,000 acres. He learned not only sheep work but also cultivation, building construction, … the suitability of many of the New Zealand properties for farming by a large pastoral company. Davidson realised that …
Type: Biography