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… held power for all but three of the 24 years between 1960 and 1984, serving as a cabinet minister for 15 years and as … married Diana Grace Hunter, the daughter of a Hawke’s Bay farming family. They had three daughters and two sons … returned to farming and in the early 1950s purchased a sheep farm near Pōrangahau in southern Hawke’s Bay. He …
Type: Biography
… Spencer Bower, was born in St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England, on 13 April 1905, with her twin brother and only sibling, Marmaduke, arriving 20 minutes later. Her … mother, Agnes Rosa Marion Dixon, had been brought up on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand, and had travelled …
Type: Biography
… was born at Whareponga on the East Coast of the North Island, according to family information in 1879. She was the … lodging for young men from other tribes who came to learn sheepfarming skills from Ngāti Porou. They often stayed for …
Type: Biography
… as she was more commonly known, was born in the Chatham Islands, on 21 November 1912, to Mere Ngautanga Dix of Ngāti Mutunga and Te Oti Rīwai, a farm labourer of Ngāi Tahu ; her … and in the early 1930s secured a job on a Chatham Islands’ sheep station as a musterers’ cook. Strict orders forbade …
Type: Biography
… George Gatonby Stead was born in London, England, on 17 August 1841, the son of George Stead, a tin plate worker, and his wife, Mary Gatonby. In 1849 he accompanied his … Downs in North Canterbury, and became well known as a sheep trader. In 1890 Stead was persuaded to buy the Press , …
Type: Biography
… visitors to the region included missionary Richard Taylor and future politician Donald McLean in 1845, and geologist Ferdinand Hochstetter in 1859. The first … to the winner of the Heartland Championship. Shearing Sheep shearing is a sport as well as an essential rural …
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Part of story: King Country region
… (Makā) Tawa (or Kanuehi) of Hāmua, a Tūhoe hapū in Ruātoki, and his wife, Kirikino (also known as Koutu) Hikihiki of the … Wī was the eldest of their family of four sons and three daughters. Maka had become a devoted follower of … From 1924 he followed his father and others to find work on sheep stations in the Gisborne district, where he worked as …
Type: Biography
… Yorkshireman Kenneth Cumberland was the first qualified geographer to teach the subject … to teach. Other farm purchases followed, both for sheep and dairy production, which enabled him to put into … For some years he advocated a combination of forestry and farming, in which trees, pasture and horticultural crops …
Type: Biography
… on 2 September 1844, at West Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the fourth in a family of eight girls of Elizabeth Swan … had become a backwater. In 1878 Charles Dean turned to farming. In 1882 his rabbit-infested 300 acres, on which he ran 150 sheep, were valued at £1,200. In 1884 the land boom …
Type: Biography
… (or Wellesley-Colley) was born at Greenfields, her parents’ sheep farm near Clive in Hawke’s Bay, on 1 August 1916, the daughter of Ethel Violet Mary Goulter and her husband, Joseph Wellesley Colley. Her mother came from a …
Type: Biography
… Samuel Duncan Parnell, a carpenter and joiner by trade, initiated the eight hour working day in Wellington. He is said to have been born in London, England, on 19 February 1810, the son of Joan Duncan and her … he listed his stock in 1861 as 2 horses, 7 cattle, 170 sheep, 2 pigs and 36 poultry. In October 1873 Parnell …
Type: Biography
… 2 December 1897 to Frederick James Alley, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Clara Maria Buckingham, who was active in the temperance and women's rights movements. He was christened Rewi on the … such widely publicised ventures as the shipment of local sheep to China, rarely appeared in newspaper coverage. In …
Type: Biography
… Edward Douglas was born on 1 July 1840 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was the sixth and youngest child of Martha Brook and … was John McGlashan . From 1863 to 1866 he was possibly a sheep station cadet, then a goldminer in Central Otago. He … care of friends, particularly Mrs Ward, the widow of his farming partner. He died in hospital at Hokitika on 23 May …
Type: Biography
… Thomas Samuel Grace was born to John Grace and his wife, Sarah Lawrence Cox, on 16 February 1815 in … isolation was often an advantage. He encouraged sheep farming, and, later, imported machinery, so that the people …
Type: Biography
… War stories Non-fiction writers have documented how New Zealand changed from a cross-cultural frontier into a settled … myself into admiring a mountain which is of no use for sheep,’ he remarks drily. 2 In Station life in New Zealand … of genteel assumptions and the realities of hill-country farming. Like Butler she is surprised by the egalitarian …
Type: Story Page
Part of story: Non-fiction
… Thomas Tanner was born in Wiltshire, England, probably in 1830, and was baptised at Devizes on 31 … in 1849 on the Larkins and worked as a cadet on a Whanganui sheep run. There he acquired a knowledge of Māori culture … land speculator: he was committed to the idea of scientific farming. In order to drain and clear his Riverslea estate he …
Type: Biography
… Heaton Rhodes was born on 27 February 1861 at Purau, a farming locality on the shore of Lyttelton Harbour, the eldest son of Sophia Circuit Latter and her husband, Robert Heaton Rhodes, a substantial … for its fine flocks of English Leicester and Corriedale sheep, while its Clydesdale stud competed successfully at …
Type: Biography
… New Zealand is roughly midway between Antarctica and the tropics, lying between latitudes 34° and 47° south. … over. Power lines snapped, weighed down by sausages of ice. Sheep’s coats froze to the ground, water pipes burst, and …
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Part of story: Natural environment
… Kinship links within Ngāti Kahungunu, Rangitāne, Ngāti Ira and other major tribal groups in Hawke's Bay made him … it precluded any more fighting, and turned his attention to farming, the building of a watermill and other improvements … 'beyond him to manage'. In 1862 he seized a flock of 2,400 sheep when a lessee refused to pay increased rent. His …
Type: Biography
… included Te Whānau-a-Te Ao, Ngāti Rangi, Te Whānau-a-Karuai and Ngāti Rākairoa. His father, Paratene Ngata , was a … Under Wahawaha and Paratene Ngata they had started sheepfarming in the last two decades of the century. The young …
Type: Biography