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… principal route for the majority of travellers between Auckland and Wellington, and along the route all the major … road between Marton and Taihape and which provide the best farming land in the area. Spectacular descents occur near … Trunk railway. The area is given over principally to store sheep and cattle raising, although dairying is carried out …
… of Grigg, John appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. John Grigg was born in 1828 at … at the local “dame” school in Bodmin, was destined for a farming career, but an injury to his leg forced him to … despite his father's wishes, young Grigg turned again to farming and was apprenticed to his uncles Nattle. This …
… by Sydney merchants in the 1830s, at Port Underwood and on Queen Charlotte Sound. Little knowledge of the … who possessed capital found it more profitable to invest in sheep grazing in the Wairau than in the agricultural … price of 5s. per acre. Because of its early start in sheep farming, Marlborough served as the principal …
… in demonstrating the relationship of climatic change and vegetation. The southern Wairarapa is, however, … of small-fruit growing, but over most of the area fat-lamb farming predominates. In the east a wide belt of hill country is taken up with store sheep and cattle, though the upper slopes of the Aorangi …
… While the development of the North Island was slowed by fighting, that of the South Island accelerated thanks to pastoral farming and gold mining. During the 1850s and 1860s the … tussock covered and so immediately useful, were opened to sheep. In the North Island only the Wairarapa and Hawke's …
… west of Shag Point on the North Otago coastline. North and west the land rises to hills and mountains. The … is a servicing and distributing centre for a predominantly sheep-farming district. There is some dairy farming. At Goodwood …
… of the Temuka River, in South Canterbury. On the south and east the country is undulating to level plain; on the … north of Timaru via Orari. The main primary activity is sheep farming. There is also some mixed farming (including wheat), …
… Ohakune is situated on undulating land immediately south-west of Mount Ruapehu. The North … of Wellington, and 224 miles south of Auckland. The main farming activities of the district are sheep and cattle raising. There is some market gardening and …
… of Cape Wanbrow on the coast of North Otago. On the west and south-west the country rises to rolling downs and, in … Timaru is 53 miles north-east by road or rail. The main farming activities of the district are intensive sheep farming and cash cropping on the downs and lowlands …
… The Chatham group of islands lies some 500 miles east of Lyttelton, about latitude … Morioris, 17 half-castes, and 46 Europeans. A new era of sheep farming was opened by Chudleigh and the Ritchies in 1865, … CHATHAM ISLANDS …