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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Hekeao

Hekeao.

The Hekeao settlement, which was bought from the trustees of the late Hon. W. S. Peter, by the Government, contains 2,000 acres of good, level, and undulating agricultural and pastoral land, with a depth of about eight inches of black soil. In March, 1898, the land, which had been divided into nine farms, was balloted for under leases in perpetuity at a rental of five per cent. on its capital value. The rents averaged from two shillings to six shillings and sixpence per acre, and the whole of the land was taken up. It is now well fenced and cultivated. Excellent yields of oats and turnips are common; the settlers are well housed, and the farms are in a prosperous condition owing to careful cultivation. There is a public school at the settlement, which is one mile and a half from Mayfield, and three miles from the Anama railway station.

Harrison, George, Farmer, Hekeao settlement. Mr. Harrison is a native of County Wexford, Ireland, where he was brought up on his father's farm. He came to New Zealand in 1884 by the ship “Bombay.” Shortly after landing at Lyttelton, he went to Dorie in the Ashburton county, where he settled with his brothers. After working a farm of 1000 acres in that district for seven years, he was appointed manager of a property of 1500 acres for the Bank of New South Wales. In 1898 he took up his present area of 330 acres. The land is all of good quality, crops of oats going as high as seventy bushels to the acre; it also carries four sheep to the acre. Mr. Harrison is a member of the Anama Road Board, to which he was elected in 1902; and he is also a director of the Mayfield Saleyards Company Limited. He married a daughter of Mr. Eggleston, farmer, of Hekeao.