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Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-15

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Gerald Francis Langford; detailed history of the family and farm; land documents; photographs The original owner of the land was John Alfred Langford (b 1815) who acquired 75 acres at Long Plain Road, 5 km south of Takaka in 1872. A year later he passed joint ownership to his sons Robert Young Langford and Arthur Edward Langford. Arthur became sole owner in 1880. In 2005 the farm was owned by the G F Langford Trust and the farm was managed by Richard Francis Ward Langford & wife Cindy (great-great-great grandson of original owner). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, photographs (laser & photocopies)

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-11

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Peter William Thomson; family history & 5 generation Thomson family tree; land documents (title, maps, etc); article by M G Thomas entitled `Yeoman of the South: Southland pioneering farmers and their families', Feb 1940 (published in Southland Daily News); mss notes - The farms of Messrs John Thomson and sons near Winton (1878); reminiscence by William Thomson (son of John) for article published in newspaper; brief sketches of John Thomson snr family (provided by descendant of each); photographs of family and farm; `The life of Peter Thomson' by Douglas Thomson (father of P W Thomson). Original owner of the property was John Thomson (1813-1894). Born in Perthshire, Scotland, he immigrated to NZ in 1864 with his youngest children on the Lady Raglan and settled in Winton. His wife Jane died in 1860 and his two elder sons had arrived two years earlier on the Brothers Pride. With the money earned from ploughing, fencing and cartage contracts he purchased 2,000 acres from the Shand Bros (and a further 2,000 acres between 1866-1886), in the district now known as Thomson's Crossing, near Winton. Wheat cropping was his first experiment on the farm he named Winton Plains where he remained until his death in 1894. In 1876, the eldest son Peter settled on a 900 acre block of his father's property, later taking over the homestead, his main source of income being derived from sheep grazing and cropping. His second son James farmed 1,050 acres of the original estate. John, the third son farmed a 700 acre block of land to the south of the estate. In 2005 543 acres of the original estate is farmed by John Thomson's great great grandson, Peter William Thomson and his wife Norah, nee Adamson (Springburn Trust). The homestead they live in, `Springburn', was built in 1925 to replace John Thomson's original home. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, printed matter, photographs (some photocopies)

Date: 2005

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-24

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Bruce Raymond and Joan Evelyn Jordan; genealogical sheets for Frances Irene Remnant (1918-2003) who married Douglas Mervyn Jordan (1915-1991); James Blaikie (1812-1887); Andrew Blaikie (1842-1927); Mabel Isabel Blakie (1891-1976). Certificates of title for land at Lochiel in the New River Hundred, bordering the Oreti River, Southland; notes on members of the Blaikie/Blakie family and the farm; cadastral map of New River Hundred showing location of the land owned by the family. Original owner was Andrew Blaikie who acquired the original parcel of land in 1877 (300 acres) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescript, maps, photographs Copies of photographs of: Wedding of Douglas M Jordan and Frances I Remnant (1946); Bruce and Joan Jordan (1970); Cottie, Bob & Jack Blakie; Andrew Blaikie/ Blakie & Eliza Coster; Hylton & Mabel Remnant with Bruce Raymond Jordan (1949); aerial photo of Greenmead farm (ca 1960).

Date: 2006

From: New Zealand Century Farm and Station Program :New Zealand Century Farm and Station Award applications

Reference: MS-Papers-8640-55

Description: The papers consist of: Application form submitted by Paul James Hickson; genealogical material, photographs of the farm and family; certificates of title and maps; excerpts from `Pongakawa School'; `Early Pongakawa' by J N Blaymires (1993). Original owner of Clonmel, situated at Pongakawa, 16 km from Te Puke, was John Henry Benner, who purchased 425 acres in 1896. In 2006 the property owned by Paul James Hickson (grandson of J H Benner) who has been developing part of the original farm into a kiwifruit orchard. The farm was awarded the New Zealand Century Farm and Station award to mark over 100 years of continuous ownership by one family. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs (photocopies)