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… to have been born at Clifton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, England, on 27 October 1826. He was the son of Mary Bateman and … wire-drawing ironworks, while the Firths had long been farming at Chats House, Oakenshaw, and had substantial … grain. The mixed farming ventures of the 1880s produced fat sheep and cattle that could not be profitably disposed of, …
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… Walter Pettit Tricker was born in Stowupland, Suffolk, England, and baptised there on 18 August 1823. He was the son of … Tricker returned to his farm and family. As well as running sheep, he worked for the Campions and belonged to the local …
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… 21 September 1908, the son of John Hazlitt Upham, a lawyer, and his wife, Agatha Mary Coates. He boarded at Waihi … who were being bullied. Upham was keen to pursue a farming career, and completed a diploma of agriculture at … in 1930. For the next six years he worked on high country sheep stations in Canterbury. During this time he acquired a …
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… Edward (Ted) Buckland Firth and Guy Mortimer (Tony) Firth, the founders of Firth … they developed into a successful economic unit, running sheep and cattle. The remainder, an area of recently … Firth, Edward Buckland …
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… Learmond Baxter was born at Saddle Hill, Otago, New Zealand, on 13 December 1881, one of eight children of John Baxter, a farm labourer, and his wife, Mary McColl. Both the Baxters and the McColls … to leave school at the age of 12. He thinned turnips, shore sheep, minded cows and shot rabbits, and worked his way to …
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… 1892, one of seven children of Helen Donaldson Herriot and her husband, Joseph Watson Cunningham, manager of a sheep station at nearby Moa Flat. He was educated at …
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… – was born on 23 January 1845 at Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland, the third son and fourth surviving child of Roderick … Company, Deepdell was a big station which ran over 30,000 sheep. It was situated at Waihemo next to the Shag Valley … and neglect combined to reduce the profits from his run (sheep numbers fell from 34,037 in 1887 to 23,300 in 1894), …
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… Andrew Anderson, universally known as Andy, was born on 17 October 1895 at Pipiriki on the … the after deck, causing the boat to list still further. The sheep followed the cows, just as Andy was attempting to … Anderson, Andrew …
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… on religious or political topics, or practical manuals and advice books. New Zealand publishing was always … But settlers needed specifically New Zealand guides to sheep farming, beekeeping and gardening, and directories, … Early publishing for Pākehā and Māori …
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Part of story: Publishing
… Phonemes Phonologically New Zealand English (NZE) has the same 20-vowel phoneme system as … make a distinction between the phonemes in NEAR and SQUARE. Sheepish speech In 1934 an English visitor to New Zealand, … phrases like ‘Arthur has parked the car’ sounded like sheep baa-ing. Vowels in the New Zealand accent START vowel …
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Part of story: Speech and accent
… (the illegal killing of one person by another) – murder and manslaughter. Murder is when one person kills another … death could not reasonably be expected to result. Murder and manslaughter rates Rates of reported murder and … that Bolton had regularly put small amounts of powdered sheep dip (containing arsenic) into her tea. Between 1842 …
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Part of story: Violent crime
… the name of John Kennedy, a timber merchant who was robbed and murdered by ex-convicts in 1843. In 1852 Ngāti Tamaterā of Hauraki gifted land at Harataunga to Ngāti Porou. The main reason was to … storage pits. Later, under private ownership, cattle and sheep were farmed. Life for settler families was austere and …
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Part of story: Hauraki–Coromandel places
… of Gisborne. Her mother, Mere Hape, was of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki descent, from Manutūkē, near … Cambridge graduate, had emigrated with his brother, George Randall Johnson, to Poverty Bay and established a sheep farm and fruit orchard in the district. Mīria was sent …
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… of Nātanahira Te Umutapu Wī Te Kākākura Parata, a farmer, and his wife, Ōriwa Tuini Horomona. Her paternal grandfather was Wiremu Te Kākākura Parata , known as Wi Parata … had a large acreage of vegetables, a cattle herd, and sheep and pigs, which provided for the family and their …
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… in the nineteenth century. His father was Te Rehi-oriori, and his mother was Kokiro. He traced his descent through … (although he had probably not been baptised), and was farming at Te Wai-a-Te Ruatī. Te Maiharoa had three wives … after allegations by runholders that dogs were worrying sheep and that Te Maiharoa's followers were adopting a …
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… was born on the Corwar estate, Colmonell, Ayrshire, Scotland, in November 1848, the son of Euphemia McTier and her husband, Peter Rigby Wason. His father was a … Wason grew extensive crops of wheat, imported Lincoln sheep breeding stock, exported refrigerated merino mutton, …
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… Te Kākākura Waipunaahau was born on Motungārara, a small island off Kāpiti Island, probably in the mid-1830s. He grew up … 11 children, including four sons. By 1868 Parata had begun farming and by 1875 ran about 1,600 sheep. He built a house on the north bank of the Waikanae …
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… Maika, a hapū of Ngā Rauru. Ruka had a brother, Toherangi, and a sister, Taihape. His father successfully farmed Rēhia’s land holdings at Maxwell, north of Whanganui. Ruka attended … recounting that his first and most attentive audiences were sheep and cows. Ruka accompanied Rākei and his Ngā Rauru iwi …
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… youth with blondish red hair, Sam favoured his European grandfather’s looks. As his parents could not afford to keep … and develop good pasture. He then stocked the property with sheep and cattle. His rigorous selective breeding programme … to the fleet. Emery continued to lease and clear land for farming. In addition to dry stock he introduced a 20-head …
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… Anne Maria Maynard, daughter of Sarah Binfield and her husband, Thomas Maynard, a butcher, was born on 13 … on the Active on 1 August 1830. Thomas was experienced in farming, medicine and seamanship. Literate, good-humoured … medical work and encouraged vaccination. He introduced sheep, cattle, horses and fruit trees to the Rotorua …
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