In 1897, seven year old Far North pioneer dairyman, Howard Dunn, was helping to hand-milk 30-40 cows at Pamapuria. The milk was stored in large vats which were then hand-skimmed for the cream from which the family of fifteen made butter and sold it to the gum-fields settlers for 6d a pound. The farm also […]
The Quarry Arts Centre based in Whangarei, Northland, New Zealand, was founded by Yvonne Rust, and is famous for its Summer Do. Whangarei’s Arts Resource Centre since 1980 The Quarry Arts Centre in Whangarei was begun against all odds, during the economic recession of 1980, by Yvonne Rust, QSM. At the time, New Zealand was […]
Pioneer police constable, Thomas Inger, kept the settlement of Port Albert in Northland, New Zealand, within the law. Thomas Inger was the first policeman at Port Albert in Northland, New Zealand, and he took his post seriously. Max, now 81, is Thomas’s great grandson, and tells us a little about life in early Albertland. Albertland […]
Albertland – a brief history of the settlement of Albertland in northern NZ through the Forty Acre Scheme and William Brame, whose concept Albertland was. John Williamson, an Irish immigrant who became active in New Zealand politics from 1853, instituted the Forty Acre Scheme. The Forty Acre Scheme The Forty Acre scheme was set up […]
Te Paki Station – Northland, New Zealand. A brief history and a glimpse of pioneer life early last century in the isolated far north of New Zealand. Te Paki Station, 20kms below New Zealand’s northern most point at Cape Reinga, is now owned and managed by the crown, but it was orginally a wedding gift […]
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