Mar 24 1970
Starting from a whare of stones, built by Mr Birnie in 1857 at the junction of Whare Creek and the Silverstream, the settlement at Whare Flat consisted manly of Scots, nearly all of whom spoke Gaelic. The first school opened in 1868 in a ‘but’ and ‘ben’ with Mr Neil McLeod as the teacher. The […]
Mar 24 1970
South of Lake Waihola in the region known as Waihola Gorge, a road branches off the Main South Road by the brick Ewing Phosphate Company building. At the end of this, a left-hand turn marked ‘Drivers Road. No Exit’ leads to this stable where Mr P J Heffernan, owner of Horseshoe Bush Estate since 1967 […]
Mar 24 1970
Mr A C B Thomson lifted a moss-covered piece of wood from the track and exposed an iron pipe from which water poured into a small tank set in the ground. I gasped slightly as I swallowed the first mouthful. ‘It’s fizzy and tastes like the Tonic you have with gin.’ The water contains carbon […]
Mar 24 1970
James Reid … [after] 1854 … arrived from Scotland with his wife and two sons. His descendants have been maily responsible for developing the large well-known properties of ‘Allendale’, ‘Horsehoof’ and ‘Traquair’ on the Maungatua. Originally ‘waste land’ outside the Otago Block, this hill country grass-land was commonage for stock which farmers were allowed to […]