Next time you are getting a little impatient with how long the traffic lights are taking to change or moaning at the weeds growing untamed outside your window, I want you to think of these four Cantabs. Firstly, there was Marmaduke Dixon who with his own hands, dug an 8 foot deep well on his …
What do Para (Brazil) and the Canterbury Horticultural Society have in common? George Waldemar Skjellerup. George Skjellerup was born in Cobden, Victoria, Australia in 1881 and was the youngest of 13 children. In 1902, just before his 21st birthday, he arrived in New Zealand and began working in Dunedin at a bicycle shop. Within a …
