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… Hutton Davies was born to the journalist Theophilus Davies and his wife, Mary Curtis Acton, in London, England, on 14 … emigrated to New Zealand. After two years on an uncle's sheep station in Canterbury, Davies settled in Taranaki, … where he apparently studied engineering and surveying while farming at Inglewood. He married Ida Mary Cornwall at St …
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… Francis John Fox was born in County Westmeath, Ireland, probably on 20 September 1857, the son of Dorothea West and her husband, Jemmett George Fox, an army officer. … he named the combined holding, was running more than 6,000 sheep. The following year the partnership was dissolved and …
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… (later Gallaher) was born at Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, on 30 October 1873, the son of James Gallagher, a shopkeeper, and his wife, Maria McCloskie, a teacher. In May 1878 the … As a matter of fact he is not a forward, and is a wolf in sheep's clothing.' A correspondent warned, 'There is going …
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… William Hilgendorf was born at Waihola, Otago, New Zealand, on 23 January 1874, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth Benstead and her husband, Charles Augustus Gustavas Hilgendorf. His … North, practised comparative osteology on skeletons of sheep and rabbits. He considered that this journey …
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… district throughout the first 25 years of European whaling, and pastoral settlement commencing in the 1840s. The date … Weld in 1850, when they were prospecting the country for sheep runs. Kaikōura Whakatau was presented by his kinsmen … that the Māori people could themselves engage in pastoral farming. Mackay, however, was under McLean's instructions to …
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… Bay, on 21 August 1915. Her parents, Wheti Rōpata, a dairy and sheep farmer, and his wife, Waimātai Pāora, were both of Ngāti Kahungunu ; …
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… 1895. He was the eldest of four children of Jane Dixon and her husband, George Crawford Black Somerset, a blacksmith and … League (New Zealand Branch): The ayes have it and Black sheep (both 1935). He also had a lay-preacher’s licence, and …
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… is the township at the heart of the settled part of the island, where all its population of 378 (in 2013) lives. The island’s 25 kilometres of roads, reaching from Horseshoe Bay to … still stands near The Gutter. In the past runholders (sheep farmers) would comb for ambergris – a rare sperm whale …
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Part of story: Stewart Island/Rakiura
… The Holyoake connection with New Zealand goes back to 1843, when the great-grandparents of Keith … it was there that he spent much of his youth and began his farming career. He was born, however, at Scarborough … help from National Party supporters he was financed into a sheep and cattle farm at Waitahora, in the centre of the …
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… William Nelson was born at Warwick, Warwickshire, England, on 15 February 1843, the son of Sarah Philbrick and her … Williams's son, James, in Napier and set off to work on his sheep run at Kereru. On the way the brothers encountered … loyalty and support from his suppliers. Nelson resumed farming and with Fred acquired more properties to supply …
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… born at Wairoa, Hawke's Bay, of Ngāti Rākaipaaka of Nūhaka and Māhia. His birth date was registered as 25 April 1905, … he was born in 1908. His father, Peta Piripoi Nēpia, and mother, Riripeti (Peti) Pirihi, separated early and each … and kicking. After leaving primary school Nēpia worked on a sheep station and a railway construction gang, saving money …
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… (Gisborne). He was the elder of two sons of Tukura-ā-Rangi and John Williams Harris. Through his mother he had … out farm and labouring chores. Later he was engaged in farming at Waipukurau, but by April 1854 he had taken up a … He also owned an inland area, which by 1890 had a flock of sheep numbering over 1,000. Meanwhile, the genealogy …
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… Despite the mass of published glossaries of New Zealand slang, and the popular notion that New Zealand English … meanings in New Zealand English: a house or apartment, a farming property, an electric fence system, a stock carrier, … terms are acceptable for use in the media. Pommy git, sheep shagger and bugger have all been ruled acceptable. …
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Part of story: English language in New Zealand
… on 30 November 1885, the son of Martha (Mary) Eberhardt and her husband, Alfred Cook, a labourer and later a station manager. He … his early years in Australia working on farms, shearing sheep and mining, before emigrating to New Zealand around …
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… 11 October 1846 at Snodshill in Chisledon, Wiltshire, England, where his parents, William Cox and his wife, Fanny Jefferies, were prosperous … Manawatū, Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay, begging for food at sheep stations and picking up scraps of work. Often sick, …
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… century to process milk. Dairy products – butter, cheese and milk powder – would become New Zealand’s most valuable exports from the 1930s. Early dairy … ship’s voyage to London in 1882. The cargo was mainly sheep meat, but he also sent a small amount of Edendale …
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Part of story: Agricultural processing industries
… Wanganui, the son of Thomas Issott Grange, a blacksmith, and his wife, Mary Eleanor Conelly. His father deserted the … on the problem of soil erosion. A royal commission on sheep farming, which finally reported in 1949, saw farmers in deep …
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… 14 July 1906, the fifth of eight children of Janet Morison and her husband, Harry Blomfield Moore. Their farm, Huamara, produced … in Marlborough, then recovering from deterioration under sheep grazing. She published on the invasive scabweed …
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… When soldiers of the New Zealand Pioneer Battalion recalled 'the Padre' they spoke with … At a time when they were separated from their own people and exposed to great danger, he provided these younger men … a younger sister, Neti Waikōuka. Brought up on the family sheep and dairy farm at Mōhaka, Hēnare Te Wainohu was …
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… was born on 24 January 1877 at Oxford, Canterbury, New Zealand. He was one of six sons and three surviving daughters of Charles Abel Thompson, a … established a general store in Oxford, before purchasing a sheep farm about four miles from town. Sydney attended …
Type: Biography