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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Gummies Bush

Gummies Bush.

Gummies Bush is in the electoral district of Wallace, and is a part of the Aparima riding of Wallace county. Its population at the census of 1901 was twenty-four. The settlers are occupied in farming; and the settlement is four miles from Riverton and thirty from Invercargill. Gummies Bush district lies between the Aparima and Pourakino rivers, and gives evidence of being a well-established settlement. It has a co-operative dairy factory, a post office, public library, public school, and a small Presbyterian church.

Aparima Dairy Factory Company, Limited , Gummies Bush; offices at Riverton. This factory was established in 1901 in its present form, as a farmers' co-operative dairy factory company. The capital is £1,000, and the shares are held by the milk suppliers. Mr G. O. Cassels, of Riverton, is secretary and treasurer. There are seven directors, and a chairman of directors. The factory is about three miles from Riverton, and stands on ten acres of land. Its buildings are of the latest design, with every convenience for the making of cheese, of which nearly 100 tons were made in 1903. The plant includes a nine horse-power boiler and a small pumping engine. There is a piggery connected with the factory.

Mr. John Hamilton Reid Taylor , Manager of the Aparima Dairy Factory, Gummies Bush, was born at
Mr. And Mus J. H. R. Taylor.

Mr. And Mus J. H. R. Taylor.

East Taieri, in 1869, educated at Mosgiel, and brought up to farm work on the farm of his father. He attended the dairy school at Edendale, and was afterwards at the factory at Otara, where he was for two years assistant, and manager for four years. In October, 1900, he was appointed to his present position. Mr Taylor has taken out (in New Zealand) a patent for an Impress Cheese Brand, which has advantages in the way of setting out the qualities of the product, and the brand made by it cannot be taken out without leaving proofs of the tampering. For some years Mr Taylor was a runner at sports and an enthusiastic footballer and cricketer. In August. 1899, he married a daughter of Mr D. Doull, and has one son and one daughter.

Allison, James And Son (James Allison and John McDonald Allison), Farmers, Gummies Bush. The Messrs Allison own a farm of 460 acres, on which they conduct mixed farming.

Mr. James Allison was born at Kirkcolm, Wigtonshire, Scotland, and learned ship carpentering in Glasgow. In 1859, he landed at Adelaide, South
Gerstenkorn, photo.Mr. J. Allison.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. J. Allison.

Australia, and went to the Bendigo and Gippsland diggings. He arrived in New Zealand in 1861, and was gold-mining at the Waikawa and Tuapeka diggings. In 1863 he settled in Riverton, and shortly afterwards bought a portion of his present farm, to which he added later on. Mr Allison is on the Gummies bush church committee, and is a deacon of the Riverton Presbyterian page 956 church. He married a daughter of Mr McDonald, of Mull, and has one son. Mrs Allison died some years ago.
Mr. John Mcdonald Allison Is the son of Mr James Allison, and was born at Gummies Bush about 1870. Ever since he left school, he has spent
Gerstenkorn, photo.Mr. J. M. Allison.

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Mr. J. M. Allison.

his time on the farm. He is a member of the Gummies Bush Presbyterian church, and generally takes an interest in church matters.

Merrifield, James , Farmer, Gummies Bush. Mr Merrifield has a freehold farm of 322 acres, which he devotes chiefly to dairying. He was born in Luxulyn, Cornwall, England, in 1868, and was brought up to farming, though for some time after leaving school, he worked in a tin mine. In 1888, Mr Merrifield came to New Zealand, and landed at the Bluff. From the time of landing in the colony, until he took up his farm, in 1898, he engaged in various occupations—road-making, flax-milling, and farm work. In 1888, he married a daughter of the late Mr James Cock, engineer, Cornwall, and has three sons and one daughter. For two years Mr Merrifield was a member of Gummies Bush school committee, and he is at present (1905), and has been for three years, a director of the Aparima Dairy Factory Company, Limited. He is a member of Lodge Wallace, Independent Order of Oddfellows, American Constitution, at Riverton.

Gerstenkorn, photo. Mr. J. Merrifield.

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Mr. J. Merrifield.

McKay, John , Farmer, Gummies Bush. Mr McKay has a compact farm of 120 acres, and carries on mixed farming. He has at various times exhibited thoroughbred horses at Invercargill and Riverton. Mr McKay was born at Ardnarff, Ross-shire, Scotland, in 1864, and came to New Zealand with his mother in 1872. He was educated at Gummies Bush, where his mother had settled, and worked on his mother's farm until about 1894, when he bought a small farm of ninety acres. This he sold, in order to settle on his present farm, which he had bought just previously. Mr McKay takes a great interest in horse racing, and has bred several horses of some note, and still breeds. He has ridden his own horses on many occasions. He is now a steward, and also time-keeper, for the Riverton Racing Club, and has, as a committeeman, been connected with the club for fifteen or sixteen years. Mr McKay was for seventeen or eighteen years a member of the Riverton Rifles, of which he was sergeant, and is now a member of the Rifle Club. As a rifleman, he has attended the New Zealand Association meetings on two occasions, and several meetings of the local association. He was winner one year of the medal as best shot of the Southland district, and was four times holder of the Riverton Rifles Belt. In 1896, he married a daughter of the late Mr James Morley, of Kidderminister, England, and has two sons and two daughters.

Gerstenkorn, photo Mr. And Mrs J. McKay.

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Mr. And Mrs J. McKay.

McKay, Farquhar , Viewhill Farm. Gummies Bush. Mr McKay's farm consists of 269 acres of good agricultural land. He breeds and exhibits Romney Marsh sheep and thoroughbred and hunting horses, and for many years was a prizetaker in light horses, cattle and sheep. Mr McKay was born at Ardnarff, Ross-shire, Scotland, in 1865, and came to Port Chalmers with his mother in 1872. Mrs McKay took up a farm at Gummies Bush, and there Mr McKay worked until ten years ago, when he took over his mother's property. Mr McKay takes an interest in racing, and bought some racehorses which he rode himself. He was for about ten years huntsman of the Birchwood hounds, and a leading cross-country rider. Mr McKay has been connected page 957 with the Riverton Racing Club for some years, and is a member of the Western Districts Agricultural and Pastoral Association, of which he has been a steward for five or six years. In
Gerstenkorn, photoMr. F. McKay.

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Mr. F. McKay.

1897, he married a daughter of the late Mr Alexander McRae, of Rossshire, Scotland, and has three sons and two daughters.