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… Napenape Remnant of lowland coastal forest about 5 km south of the Hurunui River … of Cheviot. There is a group of fishermen’s houses and holiday cabins at the mouth of the Motunau River, 14 km … is tiny Motunau Island. Motunau was the site of the first sheep run in Canterbury, taken up in 1847. Fossils are found …
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Part of story: Canterbury places
… Northern islands Offshore islands dot the coast from Coromandel to Colville Bay, … to go. Recent plantings of radiata pine cover many slopes. Sheep and cattle are farmed on the river flats. Isolation …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… The natural greenhouse effect The earth’s surface and lower parts of the atmosphere are warmed by radiation … anaerobic conditions, such as in the digestive systems of sheep, cows and other ruminant (cud-chewing) animals, and in … (N 2 O) is released into the atmosphere as a by-product of farming. It is estimated that global releases of nitrous …
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Part of story: Atmosphere
… two opposing teams, each fielding six players (five skaters and a goaltender). Each team’s skaters include three forwards and two defence players. The skaters, using hockey sticks, … Erewhon Cup The Erewhon Cup is named after a mid-Canterbury sheep station whose owner, Wyndham Barker, gave the trophy …
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Part of story: Ice sports
… from Paekākāriki to Ōtaki. It is named for Kāpiti Island, which dominates Wellington’s west coast. The terrain … much of this was cleared in the 19th century for dairy and sheep farming. Rapid growth In the early 1900s the district …
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Part of story: Wellington places
… loomed over the Māori world. They were places of great awe and spiritual presence. Nearly every range and prominent peak in the country is linked to local tribal … side of the Southern Alps, the boundaries of high-country sheep stations reach well into the headwaters of most major …
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Part of story: Mountains
… added later) was born at Ninewells near Dundee, Angus, Scotland, probably in 1842 or 1843, the daughter of Margaret Mitchell, a jute spinner, and Robert Coupar. Her mother claimed to be related to Dame … that William Siteman of Spring Hill, Wimbledon, owned 1,400 sheep. By 1898 they were able to employ a manager for the …
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… of local pronunciation. Two Scots, George Rennie and William Cargill, were early promoters of settlement. … allied themselves with members of the Free Church of Scotland, a movement of ministers and their congregations who had … during the Australian gold rushes, and some half a million sheep were profitably pastured by 1861. Successful …
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Part of story: Otago region
… River crossings South Canterbury’s northern and southern boundaries were large, snow-fed rivers that … until the present bridges at downriver Rangitātā Island were built in the 1930s. The Waitaki was bridged at … the railway to Fairlie, began as outstations on the Levels sheep run. Settlements like Albury, Glenavy and Arundel had …
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Part of story: South Canterbury region
… Systematic colonisation New Zealand’s organised European settlement from 1840 owed much to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a major figure in the New Zealand Company. His plan of ‘systematic colonisation’ marked … of wheat-growing southern England, rather than the large sheep runs which became the main source of New Zealand’s …
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Part of story: Economic thought
… the beginning of organised European settlement in New Zealand, newcomers have brought class expectations. Edward … envisaged a society of traditional rural classes, with a land-owning aristocracy, small farmers, and hard-working … landowners. There were 174 pastoralists (who owned large sheep farms) who left estates with an average value of …
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Part of story: Class
… Hugh John Dyke Acland, known as Jack, was born at Christchurch on 17 January 1904, the eldest son of Hugh Thomas Dyke Acland and his wife, Evelyn Mary Ovans. John Barton Arundel … Tripp established at Mount Peel the first high country sheep station in the province. Jack Acland’s father was a …
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… 1882 in a thatched whare at Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, the first of 11 children of Hannah Stack and her … leased land on the outskirts of Opunake, where he took up farming. Mary displayed courage and persistence from an … Duff for his 'sentimental and undemocratic attitude to sheep'. In her view the farming of these animals was leading …
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… William Duffus Hunt was born in New Zealand on 2 December 1867 at Oruru, near Mangonui, Northland, … the mustering, auction and delivery of many thousands of sheep. The Dunedin stock and station firm Wright Stephenson … and energetic guidance, the firm expanded into all areas of farming over the next three decades. Branches were opened …
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… lost its importance relative to the rest of New Zealand in the 20th century, local business and city interests saw this as decline. Promoting … 2000s: in Clutha district, farms have been converted from sheep to more lucrative dairying, and vineyards and wineries …
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Part of story: Otago region
… 1900, the son of Mīkaere (Mīkaera) Pare Keiha Tūrangi and his wife, Maraea (Maria) Hokiwi Ward. His father’s … Hinekauia Peakman, the daughter of William Henry Peakman, a sheep farm manager, and his wife, Taraipine Pango Huka of … executive. He retired from the public service to manage his farming properties at Hexton, where he lived until his death …
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… areas, people made their own fun informally at home. Work and play ‘There was of course no leisure on the farm,’ 1 … early 1900s. For many in the country who lived on the job and had to work hard, this was undoubtedly the case. It was … followed meetings on issues such as the threat of scab (a sheep disease). Stock sales were said to be as much a picnic …
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Part of story: Rural recreation
… Alexandra With a 2013 population of 4,800, Alexandra is the main … than 60 km south at Alexandra. Near Chatto Creek, Merino sheep on Moutere Station are descended from the Merino … Hayes (1851–1933) invented a range of devices to help with farming tasks. The abandoned mining town of Moa Creek was …
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Part of story: Otago places
… Davies Wilder Ormond came to be synonymous with the New Zealand meat industry in the three decades following the Second … near Waipukurau, young John learnt the essential skills of sheep and cattle farming and became proficient in horsemanship, an interest …
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… Taiwhanga, the son of Tawatawa and his wife, Wāhi, was a direct descendant of Tamakiterā. … Wales, at Parramatta, expanding his knowledge of European farming methods and skilled trades. He appears to have known … Islands. By the early 1840s the farm had a small flock of sheep and Taiwhanga had built a new weatherboard house with …
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