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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Hammond, John

Hammond, John, Farmer, Rata. Mr. Hammond is the third son of Mr. R. Hammond, of York farm, a native of Bradford, England, and a pioneer who landed in Wellington in 1842, and some fourteen years after settled in the Rangitikei District, where the subject of this sketch was born in 1857. Mr. John Hammond was educated at Christchurch Boys' High School. Leaving school, he was for ten years farming with his father, and about 1884 he took up land adjoining the Hunterville Railway Line. He has 3600 acres, which run to within twenty chains of Rata Railway Station. Coming into the country in its virgin state, Mr. Hammond has left nothing undone to improve his farm. All the bush is now felled except a small clump reserved for shelter and timber. The whole is fenced and in grass, with the exception of 200 acres yet unburnt. There is a fine large house upon the property, and in
Mr. and Mrs. J. Hammond.

Mr. and Mrs. J. Hammond.

page 1282 a few years this property will be in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Hammond takes great interest in hunting and racing, and for several years hunted the Rangitikei hounds. In 1886 he married a daughter of Mr. John McKelvie, of Rangitikei, and has a family of two boys and two girls.