In this section, a small Chinese man called Chew Chong makes a huge impact on the Taranaki dairy industry – with the help of fungus and by spreading the word on butter-making hygiene. Another man with deep dairying roots has to take over the family farm when he is just 11 years old – then works through extraordinary changes in methods and machinery. A giant of a man survives a miserable childhood to find love and land in South Taranaki, where he heartily embraces the idea of sharemilking. An Eltham man turns milking methods around with a moving invention – and takes the world by storm.
| A Girl Called Pearl: Early Farming Days on East Road, Stratford By Rhonda Bartle
A mother who loved pearls
Pearl Wildermoth's strong, ... Read More |
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| Portrait of Pungarehu By Rhonda Bartle
Pungarehu in 2007: Surf Highway 45 forms the main st... Read More |
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| Mōkau trip down memory lane By Sorrel Hoskin
It's a strange feeling standing on an old house site. ... Read More |
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| JJ Patterson - His Word Was His Bond By Virginia Winder
In the early part of the 20th century, James John Pa... Read More |
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| A dog's best friend - Bernard Murphy By Sorrel Hoskin
Bernard Murphy has been up early mustering. The 80 yea... Read More |
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| Mokau River Holds Stories of Past By Virginia Winder
If you've ever taken the Cream Trip up the Mokau Riv... Read More |
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| Early Days Of Milking Tough On Children By Mary Hutching
In the early days of settlement, a typical day for man... Read More |
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| A Grand Day Out at Pembroke School By Rhonda Bartle
It's a great day, a proud day, a sunny day not to be m... Read More |
| | Talking of Pembroke - the Bayly Bunch | Old Rules for Teachers |
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| Prickles and all - Taranaki boxthorn By Sorrel Hoskin
Boxthorn - about as Taranaki as you can get. Image: ... Read More |
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| Mills and Milkers - William Hulke Walks the First Jersey Cow to Taranaki By Rhonda Bartle
A Pioneering Farmer
Bell Block farmer William Hulke w... Read More |
| | Like A Scene From the Wild, Wild West - William Hulke and the Puketapu Feud |
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| Made in Switzerland - For Kaponga By Rhonda Bartle
Down on the farm: Werner and Theresa Gut. Image Dail... Read More |
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| Eltham - Town of Many Firsts By Virginia Winder
Eltham is the first town in New Zealand to have a wa... Read More |
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| Mokau Life Upstream Battle By Amelia Bury
Imagine having so much free whitebait you end up feeding th... Read More |
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| Eltham Man Turns Milking Around By Virginia Winder
Cow psychology led an Eltham man to mastermind one o... Read More |
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| Born at Ōaonui - Con Kuriger By Rhonda Bartle
A basic entry
Con Kuriger was born in 1922, in an old... Read More |
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| Chew Chong Plays Leading Role in Dairy Industry By Virginia Winder
One of Taranaki's most visionary characters was a sm... Read More |
| | Lure of Chew Chong's Water Race | Grandson Remembers Chew Chong |
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| Time consigns Rowan to history By David Bruce
For sale for removal, an old hall, used to be a school. ... Read More |
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| Ross Dunlop and the Revolutionary Farmer of Tokaora By Rhonda Bartle
Down on the farm
Standing on the rise of Ross Dunlop'... Read More |
| | The Feisty Fordson Tractor | The Battens: a great niece remembers |
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| Life on a back-blocks farm: Roland Kennedy By Sorrel Hoskin
The goat that could harrow
Roland Kennedy learnt how ... Read More |
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| They breed them tough in South Taranaki - Louise Willis By Sorrel Hoskin
Louise Willis grew up in tough times. The following... Read More |
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| Honnor among Tractors By Sorrel Hoskin
Both Colin Honnor and his tractor are in retirement - ... Read More |
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| At My Father's Knee By Rhonda Bartle
New books and old: Owen Henry at home. Image Puke Ar... Read More |
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| The Whangamomona Road: a trip to Somewhere By Sorrel Hoskin
Not for the faint hearted
The Whangamomona Road is no... Read More |
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| A Whole Lot of Bull - Jim Thwaites and the Bull of the Century
By Rhonda Bartle
Red Dante: Pride of the Glanton Stud.
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| | A Rehab Farm at Mokoia |
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