Canterbury’s First Harvester Trialled at Riccarton – 8th January 1877
On 8 January 1877, Canterbury’s first harvest machine was trialled at Riccarton Farm by the Deans. It is so hard to imagine today that fields of wheat and barley once grew alongside Riccarton Road and Deans Ave. This was not the first time a new farming invention had been broken in by the Deans. In …