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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Stock Department

Stock Department.

Stock Department, Auckland. This is a branch of the Agricultural Department, which has its headquarters at Wellington in the office of the Secretary for Agriculture.

Mr. Frederick Shaw, Inspector of Stock for the Auckland district, joined the department about sixteen years ago. He was
Mr. F. Shaw.

Mr. F. Shaw.

born in the Isle of Man in 1838, is the son of Captain J. S. Shaw, of the Royal Artillery, and was educated in his native place and afterwards at Liverpool and King's College, London. Mr. Shaw went to the Highlands of Scotland, where he was engaged for three years in stock-raising, and in 1858 he emigrated to New Zealand. Shortly after his arrival, he purchased land in Otago and began farming and stock-raising. A few years later, he tried his fortune at gold digging at Tuapeka, but soon afterwards returned to his farm, where he remained until 1882, when he received the appointment of Rabbit Inspector for the Taieri district. Seven years later he was promoted to his present position in Auckland. In 1876, Mr. Shaw married a daughter of Mr. G. Lloyd, of Dunedin, and has fifteen children.

Mr. F. H. Brittain, Inspector of Stock, is referred to in the military section of this volume, as lieutenant of the Seadon Horse.

Captain Thomas Broun, F.E.S., Government Entomologist and Fruit Inspector at Auckland, an old Imperial veteran, was born on the 15th of July, 1838, at Edinburgh, page 182 Scotland. He was educated and married there. His father and uncle were military officers, both were naturalists and artists, and his uncle was a distinguished author on
Captain T. Broun.

Captain T. Broun.

natural history. At the age of sixteen Captain Broun received his first commission during the Crimean war. When that ended he proceeded to Burmah, in 1856, and afterwards served with his regiment, H.M. 35th Royal Sussex, in Bengal, throughout the trying period of the Indian mutiny. He also served with the 1st Waikato Regiment during the Maori war in Waikato, and on the East Coast, from September, 1863, till its conclusion, usually in command of isolated redoubts, sometimes in command of Imperial troops. During some twenty years after the war he devoted most of his time to the study of New Zealand insects, the beetles more particularly. He is the author of the work on New Zealand Coleoptera, the first volume of which was published by the Government in 1880. Six smaller volumes were subsequently issued, covering 1504 pages, and containing descriptions of 2592 species, most of which were new to science. Some other portions of the work were published in London afterwards, and types of many of his new genera and species were beautifully illustrated in a work published in London under the supervision of the authorities of the British Museum. All that work was done by Captain Broun without remuneration, but he has been elected an honorary member of European scientific societies and Australian naturalists' clubs, in recognition of his original researches. Captain Broun was appointed to his present position in 1894. Since then he has contributed many papers dealing with the life history of insects, and with his discoveries of insects and fungi which destroy pests on orchard trees and other plants.

Mr. Robinson, Chief Clerk of the Agricultural Department, is referred to elsewhere in this volume as a lieutenant of the Devonport Submarine Miners.