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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

North West Bay

North West Bay.

Tiller, Charles, Farmer, North West Bay, Pelorus Sound. Mr. Tiller was born in London, England, on the 25th of March, 1859, and came to New Zealand in the year 1873. For about nine years he lived in Blenheim, but then took up a bush farm at Onamalutu, which he worked for seven years. Mr. Tiller then sold out, and almost immediately bought his present farm, which consists of about 560 acres of rough grazing land, a large part of which is still in its native state. At present (1905) the property carries 300 sheep and a small herd of cattle. Mr. Tiller owns an oil launch, which is plied about the Sound, for the conveyance of passengers. He married Miss Hammond, of Nelson, and has one son.

“Tira Ora ,” North West Bay, Pelorus Sound. This property was first taken up by Mr. Cossett, and then owned by Mr. Tiller, and was acquired by Mr. Black in the year 1891. It is an excellent sheep and cattle farm of 817 acres, the greater part of which is cleared and sown down in good grasses; a permanent flock of over 700 ewes and a small herd of cattle are depastured, and a paddock of twenty-five acres is set aside for the cultivation of cocksfoot grass seed. The homestead is a new and up-to-date building, and commands a fine view of the bay. Relics of Maori habitations have been discovered on several parts of the farm, and it is believed by Mr. Black that the place must have been occupied by the natives more than a thousand years ago.

Mr. John Hunter Black , J.P., was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and was educated at Penpont, about eighteen miles from Dumfries, where his father, Mr. Robert Black, carried page 403 on business as a stonemason. As a lad, he was brought up in an ironmongery establishment, and in the year 1863, at nineteen years of age, he came to New Zealand. Mr. Black landed in Dunedin, and for a few years worked, successively at the diggings, at the erection of telegraph lines through the province of Otago, and on large sheep stations. In 1867, he removed to Marlborough, and was employed for twenty-four years on the Meadowbank station, by Mr. A. P. Seymour, and afterwards by Mr. G. B. Richardson. Mr. Black resigned his position in 1891, in order to take up his present farm, and has since been very successful. He is district correspondent for the local aided school, and is also local postmaster. Mr. Black married Miss Ann Herd, of “Auntsfield,” Bienheim, and has four sons and six daughters.