Cattle Peaks Station, Omihi. This properly consists of 2400 acres of freehold, and carries about 2500 sheep. It was formerly owned by Mr. Newton, but was bought in 1901 by Mr. R. Allan, senior.

Mr. R. S. Allan, Junior, Manager, of Cattle Peaks Station, was born at Woolston, in 1881. He received his education at the Boys' High School, Christchurch, and was brought up to farming at Little River, on his father's farm of 1300 acres. For some time Mr. Allan managed the Little River property, before taking over the management of Cattle Peaks station in 1901.

Cole, George, Farmer, Rosedale Farm, Omihi. Mr. Cole was born in Bedfordshire, England, and educated at Hirst's school in Sussex. He followed farming in the Old Country, and spent a considerable time in South Africa, India, and Mauritius. After returning to England he went again to Africa, but in the course of six months decided to try his fortune in New Zealand, where he arrived in 1864, by the ship “Trader.” Mr. Cole landed at Port Chalmers, and went immediately to the Dunstan goldfields at the time of the “rush.” He was driving on the roads for about two years, and then went to the diggings on the West Coast, where he was fairly successful. After three years at the West Coast, Mr. Cole came to Canterbury, and was employed in farm work. In page 546 1873 he bought 123 acres, and later on acquired the freehold of an additional 150 acres. He worked his property as a mixed farm until 1898, when he sold out, and bought his present farm of 375 acres, which he has greatly improved with fences, trees, and a six-roomed residence and outbuildings. Mr. Cole was for three years a member of the Wakanui Road Board, and has served on the Wakanui, Riverside, and Omihi school committees. He was married, in 1874, to a daughter of Mr. William Crow, of Gore, and has six sons and three daughters.

Clephane, George, Farmer, Omihi. Mr. Clephane was born in 1863, in Christchurch, and educated there. In 1875 he went with his parents to the Wakanui district, Ashburton, and was there brought up to farming by his father. In 1891 he took over his father's farm of 200 acres of freehold, and when his father died in 1898, he sold out and bought his present property of 520 acres, on which he keeps sheep and grows crops. For several years Mr. Clephane was a member of the Wakanui River Board, and was also a member of the local school committee for seven years. He is now a member of the Omihi school committee, and also of the Canterbury Farmers' Union. Mr. Clephane was married, in 1891, to a daughter of Mr. J. Love, of Gapes' Valley, Geraldine, and has one son and two daughters.

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Mr. and Mrs G. Clephane.

Glenmark Estate (G. H. Moore, proprietor), Omihi. “Glenmark” is one of the finest estates in Canterbury. It is situated about forty-one miles from Christchurch, on the northern railway line, which runs through the western portion of the property, while the Waipara-Cheviot line passes through on the other side. The estate originally comprised 81,000 acres of freehold land, but it is now (1902) being sold in small areas, and about 27,000 acres remain to be disposed of. Almost since the foundation of Canterbury “Glenmark” has been celebrated as excellent sheep country. The land is, on the whole, well watered, and experience has shown that it can produce splendid grain crops. Some of the land is of limestone formation, and a great deal of it is fit for the plough. With two railways and several roads, the property has ample means of communication. It has the Waipara, Waikari and Hawarden railway stations on the northern line, Omihi and Scargill on the Waipara-Cheviot line; and a large number of progressive farmers have already settled on the land. The saleable portion has been divided into township quarter acres, and suburban allotments of from five to ten acres, and into farms varying in size from fifty acres to 1000 acres. The climate of the country round “Glenmark” is extremely bracing and healthy. It should be mentioned that the Glenmark estate is closely connected with the rise of the Canterbury Museum. In 1866 moa bones in large numbers were discovered on the estate. When Sir Julius von Haast, who was then curator, heard of this, he immediately communicated with Mr. Moore, who not only at once gave the Museum the collections already made, but placed workmen at the disposal of the curator, who was thus enabled to carry on extensive excavations in a large swamp, from which Sir Julius obtained sufficient bones to load a large American four-horse waggon. This incident brought in a new era, so far as the Museum was concerned. Up till that time it had been the practice to send all moa bones from the colony to English museums; but Sir Julius von Haast built skeletons, more or less complete, and sent them to America, Australia, and the Continent of Europe. In all those places they were received by scientists with great pleasure, and the curator obtained in exchange large numbers of stuffed memmals. birds, reptiles, skins, fossils, and many other articles. With these was founded the Canterbury Museum's present collection, which in quality and classification is unsurpassed in the Southern Hemisphere. Besides, most of the complete moa skeletons now standing in the Museum have been built up from the Glenmark bones.

Jones, Thomas, Farmer, Omihi. Mr. Jones is the third son of Mr. Edward Jones, one of the early settlers of Canterbury, who came to the Colony in 1864. He was born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, in 1862. He rented the Rusdale farm, Rangitata, from his mother in 1882, and ten years later purchased the freehold of the property, 203 acres in extent. Mr. Jones is now farming at Omihi.

Mr. T. Jones.

Luscombe, Roger B., Farmer, Omihi. Mr. Luscombe was born in 1853, in Devonshire, England, where he was educated and brought up on his father's farm. He came to New Zealand in the ship “Isle of the South” in 1874 and engaged in shearing, general farm work, and contracting for about ten years in the Ashburton district. Mr. Luscombe at first bought five acres, and, later on, acquired sixty-two acres and 228 acres of leasehold, and worked the whole as a mixed farm. He sold out in 1898, and came to his present farm of 450 acres, which he works as a sheep and agricultural farm and runs a large number of pigs. Mr Luscombe has a stud flock of thirty-two English Leicester ewes, bought from Mr. F. Wright and the late Mr. J. M. Furze, and has rams of the same breed from Lincoln College. As chairman of the Eiffelton school committee Mr. Luscombe served about six years, and was the principal promotor of that body. He also promoted the establishment of the Omihi school committee, of which he has been chairman since its inauguration. He is also a member of the Canterbury Farmers' Union. Mr. Luscombe was married in Devonshire, in 1873, and has five sons and five daughters.

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Mr. R. B. Luscombe.