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Some Of The Homes Of The Rhodes
*image of Te Koraha courtesy of http://www.isnz.org.nz * *image of Purau courtesy of http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/ * *image of Elmwood and Oakford courtesy of http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/* *image of Otahuna courtesy of http://www.otahuna.co.nz *
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The Rhodes Brothers
William Barnard Rhodes (1807 – 1878) was the eldest of his 13 siblings and the first to arrive in New Zealand out of his 5 brothers! As Captain and co-owner of the ship ‘Harriet’, William saw a lot of the world. In 1836, while employed by the firm of Cooper and Levy, William sailed into …
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The Hart Family
The first time I read about the Hart family, my imagination was stirred! Here was this family fresh off the ‘Cressy’ struggling through the tussock of the Canterbury Plains (after tramping over the Bridle Path and punting across the Heathcote), squinting into the blazing setting sun. They stop for breath, the father looking at his …
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The Ward Brothers
Maybe it had been the tedious bumpy ROADLESS journey over the sea of tussock – from Hawkins (a stone’s throw from Darfield) to Rolleston – that made the farmhand lower the new plough down to harvesting position before he towed it back to Bangor in which he worked. He had been sent out hours before …
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