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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Pickering, F. E.
Pickering, F. E., Farmer, “Thistledeane,” Beacons-field. Mr. Pickering, who hails from Liverpool, where he was born in 1863, arrived in the Colony in 1886. After about five years' experience of farming he acquired his present property, consisting of 500 acres of first class land, currying 1600 sheep and twenty head of cattle. There is a nine-roomed house on the farm. Mr. Pickering is a member of the Manawatu and West Coast Agricultural and Pastoral Association, and takes a keen interest in polo. He is married to a daughter of Mrs. Beattie, of Feilding.