Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
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Robert Cleland (c. 1851–92) as a prosperous Lower Hutt grocer c. 1886, with six of his children
(to his left Fred, Lena and Norman; to his right Harold (mounted), Tom and Hugh). In 1893,
doubtless with careers for the seven sons in mind, the family settled in the Toko district,
Taranaki, where Robert died suddenly six months later