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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Cranston, Edmund Mumford

Cranston, Edmund Mumford, Farmer, “Summer Vale,” Mangamahu, Fordell. Mr. Cranston is a native of Wanganui, where he was born in 1868. His parents removed to Fordell in 1879, and eight years later the subject of this sketch took up about 1000 acres in the Maungakaretu Block, where he has wince resided. About half the land has been laid down in grass, and it supports a flock of healthy Romney-Lincoln sheep, which Mr. Cranston considers are more robust, come to maturity earlier, and bear closer stocking than pure-bred Lincolns.