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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Stalker, Joseph

Stalker, Joseph, Farmer, Woodend. Mr. Stalker was born in Cumberland, England, in the year 1844, and came to New Zealand by the ship “Canterbury” in 1864. He first resided between Woodend and Rangiora for two years, when he removed to Church Bush and remained there until the flood in 1868. On that occasion he narrowly escaped being drowned, his house being nearly under water, and he had to escape through the window, and by means of a canoe; all his small stock were drowned. He made a fresh start on swamp land near Rangiora, but after another year or two he took a farm near Fernside for a term of two years, and in 1872 finally settled at Woodend. In 1883, Mr. Stalker went to England in the ship “British King,” which took the first shipment of frozen meat from Lyttelton. In spite
Mr. J. Stalker.

Mr. J. Stalker.

page 453 of his vicissitudes, he exhibits a Mark Tapley vein of humour, and in narrating his experiences declares with a smile, that “Joe is still struggling along.” He has a family of five sons and seven daughters.