1. Fred A. Shannon, The Farmer's Last Frontier: Agriculture, 1860–1897, New York, 1945, p. 256.

2. NZG, 18/5/81 (won by Edendale).

3. AJHR, 1890, I-6A, p. 15.

4. CNZ, III, p. 668.

5. Star, 14/6/17 for his obituary.

6. CNZ, III, pp. 743, 746.

7. AJHR, 1892, C-2, pp. 25–27.

8. Star, 2/12/92; H.G. Philpott, A History of the New Zealand Dairy Industry, 1840–1935, Wellington, 1937, pp. 77 & 94.

9. Farmer, July 1890, p. 269; Star, 21/10/91.

10. Star, 2/4/92, 11/3/93, 10/8/98, 26/7/99.

11. Farmer, Aug. 1894, p. 285; Star, 15/1/21 94.

12. Star, 21/9/93.

13. Star, 5/8/96.

14. Ibid.; The Mangatoki Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd Jubilee: 1900–1950, p. 2.

15. ‘Mangatoki Co-op Dairy Co. Ltd [sic]: Minute Books: 1896–1900’, MS, Massey University Library, Palmerston North.

16. Star, 1/3/98.

17. Star, 8/4/98 (Mangawhero ‘Our Own’).

18. CNZ, I, pp. 1368–69.

19. ‘Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Kaponga Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd’, Kaponga Co-op. Dairy Company Ltd. Records, MS, Massey University Library, Palmerston North.

20. Star, 18/4/98.

21. Star, 3/5/98; Kaponga Dairy Co Ltd, [Extracts from the company's minutes], MS 213/0, Taranaki Museum, New Plymouth.

22. Star, 30/6/98.

23. Philpott, op. cit., p. 89.

24. Star, 1/11/98.

25. Star, 10/8/98, 25/4/99, 9/5/99, 26/7/99.

26. See e.g. Farmer, Sept. 1893, p. 337.

27. Farmer, Sept. 1893, p. 337, Feb. 1895, p. 60; Star, 30/10/95 & 13/1/97 (Farm & Dairy).

28. Farmer, May 1895, p. 176.

29. Y, 1/6/83, p. 5, 10/8/83, p. 4.

30. Farmer, June 1895, p. 226.

31. Star, 29/9/99 (‘Our Own’), 1/12/98 (Advt).

32. Star, 5, 12 & 24/6/97.

33. Star, 19/6/97, 27/5/87, 27/7/95, 26/2/94.

34. See e.g., Star, 5/7/99.

35. Star, 13/2/92, 11/4/92.

36. Star, 7/12/92.

37. Star, 24/7/99, 1/11/99.

38. Star, 5/8/95, 28/9/95, 25/11/98.

39. Star, 19/9/99, 1/11/99.

40. Y, 1/1/81, p. 11; Waikato Times, 2/10/58. The ‘Battle’ was a notable Maori settler clash and is well described in Arnold Pickmere, In Thy Toil Rejoice: The Story of J.J. Patterson, [np.], 1990, pp. 90–97.

41. Star, 10/8/98, 5/9/98.

42. Star, 25/4/99.

43. Auckland Star, 31/7/1930 (Obituary).

44. The Misses Young's workshop of our illustration is not listed in Table 5.1

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because it does not ccur either in Wise's or the Star. The concern must have been shortlived.

45. Star, 9/1/97,13/2/97 (advts).

46. Star, 9/4/94, 7/5/94, 20/3/97 (advt), 22/5/99.