"FIRST SHEEP RUN"
' 'AN EARLY SETTLER'S EXPERIENCE.
Mrs. Winifred Orchisloii lins written to the Early Settlers' Association relating, to the ''first shoep run in the province."
She states .that her grandfather, Mr. 'Archibald Anderson, who arrived in 1810, took up all the open country round Capo i Terawhiti, then covered with rich native jjrass. He imported 700 sheep from Sydney: The flock hud increa.vd to over 1500 •when the Maori "War of 18i r > broke out. One morning the shepherd heard firing on the station, and seeing Maoris hunting the sheep and firing in his direction he .decamped. It was'about two years before Mr. Anderson went out to look over the sheep, and he then fopnd about the same number as was originally imported. In IRt" Mr. Anderson sent the pheep to tho South Island, which he considered safe.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 10
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139"FIRST SHEEP RUN" Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 263, 25 July 1918, Page 10
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