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… Alfred Buckland was born at Newton Abbot, Devon, England, probably on 17 … the harbour. Buckland's own ships plied the coast, moving sheep and cattle from other New Zealand ports to his … business turned to stock and station work and the sale of farming equipment. It became a limited liability company in …
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… jet-boat. Born on 26 July 1899 at Ashwick, a 45,000-acre sheep station near Fairlie, South Canterbury, he was the only son of William Feilden Hamilton and his wife, Cora Blakeney (née Cannon), who had arrived … to help his ailing father run Ashwick. In 1921 he began farming on his own account when he bought Irishman Creek …
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… New Zealand has the second-highest number of introduced bird species … birds adaptable. Most successes were in land cleared for farming, which was similar to the British countryside from … One Hawke’s Bay farmer resorted to driving his sheep across infested pasture to trample the coloured carpet …
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Part of story: Introduced land birds
… In 1924 Whanganui became New Zealand’s sixth city, some 50 years after the first five had … Access to a rich hinterland. The rapid development of sheep and dairy farming in Southland after 1890 turned the market town of …
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Part of story: City history and people
… Not surprisingly, most of the people who moved to New Zealand Company settlements were British. There were two … First, the French Nanto-Bordelaise Company had grand ideas of a colony in New Zealand. However, its ambitions … the younger sons of the gentry or ‘remittance men’ – black sheep sent out to the colonies. There were retired military …
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Part of story: History of immigration
… self-help. Until the later 20th century women’s educational and career opportunities remained limited. Many were … of rural women, emerged. WAG encouraged the sharing of farming skills – fencing, sheep and wool handling, and business management. …
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Part of story: Women’s networks and clubs
… John Davies Enys, the second son of John Samuel Enys and his wife, Catherine Gilbert, was born on 11 October 1837 … in partnership with Acland, was pioneering high-country sheep farming in Canterbury. After a year's cadetship on the …
Type: Biography
… the 1890s the large pastoral estates began to be broken up, and the huge holdings and conspicuous inequalities … remained important in rural areas. Particularly in the sheep-farming regions of the east coast of both islands, a landed …
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Part of story: Class
… of the Port Hills, but he also championed many other social and environmental causes. He was born probably on 24 … at the Canterbury Museum, before being employed on a sheep station and then at a wool-scouring works. From 1881 … and riparian forest reserves to prevent flooding in farming districts. His drive to preserve scenery in the face …
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… Nikola Nobilo was one of New Zealand’s most successful winemakers of the 1960s and 1970s, building a few vines on his Huapai farm into a … and began learning English and helping out with his uncle’s sheep, cattle, orchard and limeworks. Nikola hoped that his …
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… consists of three climate zones: the dry Wairau valley and its surrounds, the less dry Kaikōura coast and a wetter … eventually crashing into the Ōmaka River bridge. ‘[C]attle, sheep and pigs came along swimming for dear life – whole … The forests in much of the northern zone were cleared for farming in the later 19th century. Original forest survived …
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Part of story: Marlborough region
… Walter Empson was born at Eydon, Northamptonshire, England, on 19 February 1856, eldest of the eight children of Anna Delicia Hook and her husband, Arthur John Empson, an Anglican clergyman. … a brief period with a survey party at Pātea he worked on sheep stations in Canterbury, including his brother Arthur's …
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… the 1970s very few Latin Americans (people from Central and South America) came to New Zealand. Yet stereotypes were … early on. One account of a mid-19th century South Island sheep run tells of a ‘very hot-blooded’ Mexican worker who … in those years Argentina had close ties to Britain and farming links with New Zealand. New Zealand and Argentinean …
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Part of story: Latin Americans
… rural worker whose lives were itinerant – but usually back-and-forth on one route, delivering supplies and collecting produce. Eight Clydesdale horses typically … anecdotes may be exaggerations, no one could shear more sheep in a day than McKenzie. Physical prowess was respected …
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Part of story: Rural workers
… The Chatham Islands lie 862 kilometres east of Christchurch and 772 … economy and the export trade. The land is well-suited to sheep and cattle farming, which are however hampered by limited shipping and …
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Part of story: Chatham Islands
… Mycobacterium bovis , is a serious threat to the cattle and deer farming industries. It poses an economic risk to New … amphibians and insects. In the US it is used to protect sheep and goats from coyotes, and in Australia to kill pests … TB and possum control …
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Part of story: Possums
… It is not known how much Māori influenced the active dune lands, but their fires may have opened up more land to sand … shrubs and small trees near the coast in order to run sheep and cattle. They removed the natural vegetation cover, … hectares. It is uncertain if the growth was entirely due to farming practices – research has shown that dune lands also …
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Part of story: Dune lands
… mother, Riripeti Te Auē Roberts (or McRobert), was of Scots and Ngāti Kahungunu descent. His father, Īhakara Rāpana, … through the various jobs associated with one of the biggest sheep stations in Hawke's Bay. The hard physical life soon … and Turakina. He achieved his highest personal tally of 358 sheep in 8 hours 20 minutes at Mangaohane station, Taihape. …
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… Sealing gangs established seasonal camps at Toropuihi and Kahurangi on the west coast of the Nelson region from … 1840s. They killed seals in the whaling off-season. New Zealand Company settlement In October 1841 three small ships, … in Marlborough had their main residences in Nelson, and sheep were driven inland to Amuri in northern Canterbury. …
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Part of story: Nelson region
… of population. At least half of Māori men aged between 18 and 35 from the region enlisted and served overseas, mainly … rates. Overall though, the region’s rate of increase in sheep and cattle numbers was below the national average. In … five navies. Challenges, 1970 to the 2010s Hill-country farming struggled to remain profitable; by 1994 tracts of …
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Part of story: East Coast region