Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1905, Christchurch

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Riddle, Walter , Farmer, “Fairhope,” Orepuki. Mr Riddle was born at Sprouston, Roxburghshire, Scotland, in 1834, and early gained a knowledge of farming, especially in connection with stock. He had charge of a small estate for four years before coming to Port Chalmers, in 1866, by the ship “Militia.” On his arrival, he proceeded to the Clydevale estate of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, as head shepherd, and afterwards had charge of the Lincoln sheep, on the Woodlands station, for about six years. Mr Riddle managed the Oaklands station for eight years and a-half, and then took up land at Wyndham and Pahia successively, before taking up his present farm of 276 acres at Orepuki. He was chairman of the Pahia school committee for many years, and had previously been a member of the Woodlands and Wallacetown committees. Mr Riddle was married, in 1856, to a daughter of the late Mr William Crichton, of Berwickshire, Scotland, who, at her death, left him three sons and five daughters. In 1877, he married a daughter of the late Rev. Mr Stevens, Presbyterian minister at Wallacetown, and there are eight sons and four daughters by this marriage. Mrs Riddle is one of the contributors to the Otago Witness, and has written both verse and prose for other papers.