Settler Kaponga 1881–1914 — A Frontier Fragment of the Western World
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Catherine Cleland née Burt (c. 1849–1941). Concerned at Toko's poor roads, her husband
Robert bought a farm on upper Manaia Road, and was about to move the family there.
Newly widowed Catherine and her nine children carried the project through and had a major
input into the district's farming. On the founding of the Dairy Co-op Harold had the largest
shareholding