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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Farmers

Farmers.

Bailey, William, Farmer, Templeton. Mr. Bailey, who has resided at Templeton for about forty years, is a son of Mr. Samuel Bailey, who is elsewhere referred to as an old colonist. He was born in Gloucestershire, England, in 1854, and, at an early age, came out to New Zealand with his parents in the ship “Brothers' Pride,' landing at Lyttelton in 1863. He was brought up to farming on his father's estate, at Templeton, and has since farmed in the same district with much success. Mr. Bailey now owns and resides at the Spring Top Farm. This valuable property, which comprises about 1150 acres was originally part of Mr. Samuel Bealey's estate. It is all agricultural land, and, although of a somewhat light nature, yields an average of thirty bushels of wheat and forty of oats to the acre. Since 1893 Mr. Bailey has been a member of the Templeton Road Board, of which he was chairman for two years, and he has been a member of the Domain Board since 1895. For five years he served on the Templeton school committee, and he is a director of the Midland Saleyards Company, and of the Broadfields Shearing Shed Company, and a member of the Farmers' Union. Mr. Bailey joined the Canterbury Mounted Rifles as a trooper in 1895, served some years as quarter-master sergeant, and is now lieutenant quarter-master in the 1st Battalion, North Canterbury Rifles. For about five years he acted in the capacity of county valuer for the Commercial Union Insurance Company. Mr. Bailey married a daughter of the late Mr. Gilbert Mayo, sometime master of the Templeton school, and has a family of four sons and three daughters.

Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. W. Bailey.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. W. Bailey.

Mangin, George Allen, Plumpton Park Farm, Templeton. Mr. Mangin took up this property in July, 1901. The farm, which comprises 200 acres, was the original Plumpton Park racecourse, and the present stables were formerly part of the grandstand. All the land has been put under crop, and yields an average return of about twenty-five bushels of oats to the acre. Mr. G. A. Mangin, the proprietor, is a son of the late Mr. George Mangin, an old colonist of Templeton. He was born at Prebbleton in 1868, but gained most of his farming knowledge at Greendale, where he first started on his own account. In 1894 he removed to Yaldhurst, and took up land there with his brother, working under the style of Mangin Bros. Mr. Mangin is a member of the Templeton Road Board and the Yaldhurst school committee. As an Orangeman he is connected with the St. Albans' Lodge, Christchurch.

Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. G. A. Mangin.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. G. A. Mangin.

Maginness, Charles, Farmer, Templeton. Mr. Maginness is the eldest son of Mr. John Maginness. He was born at Templeton, in 1868, and was brought up on his father's farm. Of late years he has taken page 720 over the management of the property, and has very successfully carried on mixed farming. The yield of wheat averages from thirty-five to forty bushes per acre, and oats, about forty-five bushels. Mr. Maginness, senior, is referred to in another article.

Phillips, George Septimus, Farmer, Templeton. Mr. Phillips was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1844, and arrived at Lyttelton in 1850, with his father, the late Mr Henry Phillips, by the “Sir George Seymour,” one of the first four ships.
The late Mr. H. Phillips.

The late Mr. H. Phillips.

After about two years in Christchurch Mr. Phillips, senior, took up a run at Selwyn, and he afterwards purchased the Rockwood estate, at Malvern Hills, where he resided up to the time of his death in 1877. Mr. G. S. Phillips was educated at Christ's College, under the late Dean Jacobs, and was afterwards trained to a pastoral life on his father's run. He started on his own account at Dunsandel, and, about 1878, removed to Templeton, where his farm, comprising 183 acres, yields on an average, thirty-five bushels of wheat, and forty of oats to the acre. Mr. Phillips married a daughter of the late Mr. George Ffitch, an old colonist of Templeton, and has a family of one son and three daughters.
Standish and Preece, photo.Mr. G. S. Phillips.

Standish and Preece, photo.
Mr. G. S. Phillips.