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

Mr. Rowland Jeffries

Mr. Rowland Jeffries , Manager of the Goodwood Creamery, was born in Somerset, England, in 1851, and came to New Zealand with his parents, by the ship “Nour-mahal” in 1858. After his education was completed at the North Taieri school and Dunedin High School, he remained with his parents at Silverstream. Taieri, for a time, and was afterwards apprenticed to Mr. W. A. Young, flourmiller, Palmerston. In 1870, Mr. Jeffries bought his present property, “Knoll Farm,” of 290 acres, and storked it with crossbred merino and Leicester sheep. During the last few years he has engaged chiefly in dairy farming, milking forty cows, and conveying the milk to the creamery of which he is manager. Mr. Jeffriee also does a considerable amount of cropping, and wheat and oats on his farm average about forty bushels to the acre. Mr. Jeffries has been a member of the Hawksbury Road Board, the Waikouaiti County Council, and of the Flag Swamp school committee, of which he is now (1904) chairman. He was married, in 1880, to a daughter of Mr. John Duncan, sometime of “Cherry Farm.” Waikouaiti, and has a family of seven sons and three daughters.