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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Auckland Provincial District]

Shepherd, Henry George

page 582

Shepherd, Henry George, Farmer, “Tauranga” (six miles distant from Whangaroa). Mr. Shepherd has 900 acres of freehold property, besides 500 acres which he leases from the Natives. The land is for the greater part broken, but there are about 200 acres of level alluvial country, and 1200 sheep and 130 head of cattle are depastured on the property. About 500 acres have been cleared of the titri and fern which are so frequently a source of annoyance to the farmer in the district, and the land so cleared has yielded as much as forty bushels of wheat to the acre. Mr. Shepherd was born at Waitangi, Whangaroa, in 1843, and is a son of the late Mr. James Shepherd, and has been all his lifetime in the district. He is married to a daughter of Mr. Hooker, of Auckland, and has a family of six sons, all of whom have helped in no small degree to make the farm a decided success. A fine ten-roomed house has been erected, with complete outbuildings. Mr. Shepherd was for a time a member of the Whangaroa County Council.

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