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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Canterbury Provincial District]

Farmers

Farmers.

Gale, William, Farmer, “Plympton,” Kapua, Arno, Mr. Gale was born in October, 1869, in Shropshire, England, and came out to Timaru in the ship “Carrisbrooke Castle,” in 1876. He went to school at Pleasant Valley, where he gained his first experience in country work. In 1894, he took up fortyfour acres of land held under a lease in perpetuity, in the Government settlement of Kapua, where he has built a convenient residence, and carries on dairy and mixed farming. Mr. Gale is a member of the Oddfellows' Lodge at Waimate. He was married, in 1894, to a daughter of the late Mr. James Mills, of Devonshire, England, and has one daughter and three sons.

Innes-Jones, Humphrey Arthur, Farmer, “Netherleigh,” Arno. Mr. Innes-Jones is the fifth son of the Rev. Francis Innes-Jones, and was born in 1868 at Darley Abbey, Derbyshire, England, and accompanied his parents to Wellington by the ship “Northumberland,” in 1880. He went to England to be educated, and served for thirteen years under the Eastern Extension Cable Company in India, Singapore, Borneo, Java and West and North Australia. In 1897 he settled on his present property at “Netherleigh,” where he devotes his attention to sheepfarming. Mr. Innes-Jones is a member of the Waimate Agricultural and Pastoral Association. He was married on Christmas Day, 1898, to a daughter of Mr. C. W. Moss, of Greymouth, and has one son.

Manchester, George, Junior, Farmer, Limestone Peak, Kapua, Arno. Mr. Manchester was born in 1867 in Waimate, and brought up to country life in the district. He has farmed on his own account since 1890; for seven years at Redcliff, and since 1897 at his present address. Mr. Manchester has 500 acres of land, and carries on mixed farming. He was married, in 1891, to a daughter of the late Mr. R. Dailey, of Swannanoa, and has two sons and one daughter.

Price, Leonard, Farmer, Arno. Mr. Price was born at Southsea, England, in 1842, and went to sea at the age of fifteen. In 1861 he arrived at Port Chalmers by the “City of Hobart,” and gained experience in goldmining on the Molyneux for about two years, and afterwards at the Wakamarina diggings. He was appointed gold-buyer for the Union Bank of Australia, by the late Mr. McTavish, Inspector of the Bank, and in 1863 he settled in Waimate. Mr. Price erected the first brick building in the district, and was one of the earliest to use limestone for building purposes. He had a flour mill at Waihao, and conducted a general store and timber business for many years. Among other properties, he farmed 3,500 acres at Waitaki, 1000 acres at the Gorges, and over 500 acres at Downlands; and he used to put in a square mile of wheat, and a square mile of turnips. Two of his farms are now leased, one of his sons has another, and he himself workes 500 acres at Arno. Mr. Price laid out new townships adjoining Waimate, and had a Building Society of his own. He served on the old Waimate Road Board, and was a member of the first park and cemetery committees, and, with the late Mr. Studholme laid out Knottingly Park and plantations. He also supervised the park for some years. When the railway was constructed through the Gorge, he gave the land required adjoining his property, and with others, contributed largely towards the difference in cost and valuation, when the Government took over the land. He has been a member of Lodge St. Augustine, New Zealand Constitution, since its foundation, and was also prominent in connection with the establishment of the English church at Waimate, to which he presented a handsome limestone font. He was one of the early shareholders in the Freezing Works, and is largely interested in the Canterbury Farmers' Association. Mr. Price, who has travelled eight times round the world, is married, and has three sons and four daughters.

Cox, photo.Mr. L. Price.

Cox, photo.
Mr. L. Price.

Commissary-General Humphrey Stanley Herbert Jones, O.B., uncle of Mr. H. A. Innes-Jones, of “Netherleigh,” Arno, was known in New Zealand from 1837 to 1867, at the time of the Maori war, and was a native of Anglesey, North Wales. He served for nearly eight years at the Cape of Good Hope, in Canada about five years, four years in the West It was attached to the Osmanli Cavalry in 1855 and 1856, and served for ten years in New Zealand. For the Crimean campaign, General Jones received the fourth clasp of the Medjidje, together with the Turkish war medal, and for his services in New Zealand, the Maori war medal and his Companionship of the Bath. He died in October, 1902, at his residence. “Villamona,” Bordighera. Italy, at the age of eighty-six.