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

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Watson, Henry . Farmer. Queen's Flat Homestead, Ngapara. Mr. Watson is a son of the late Mr. W. M. Watson, of Upper Riccarton, where he was born in 1863. In 1890 he commenced farming at Prebbleton with his brother Frederick, and two years later took up his father's farm at Riccarton, which he worked for about ten years. In 1900 Mr. Watson bought “Queen's Flat,” consisting of 337 acres of freehold land, which he devotes to agriculture and sheep-farming. He crops about 120 acres annually. and in the season of 1903 obtained sixty and eighty bushels, respectively, of wheat and oats to the acre. While at Riccarton. Mr. Watson served on the local school committee; he has also been a member of the Ngapara school committee, and is a member of the Ngapara Defence Rifle Club. He was married, in 1888, to a daughter of Mr. J. J. Herrick, of Tai Tapu, Canterbury, and has four sons and two daughters.