Title: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]

Author: Cyclopedia Company Limited

Publication details: The Cyclopedia Company, Limited, 1897, Wellington

Part of: The Cyclopedia of New Zealand

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

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Barrow, James, Farmer, Silver Terrace, Kiwitea. Born at Johnsonville in 1853, Mr. Barrow was engaged in farming with his father at Pahautanui till the age of twenty-one. Removing to Hawera and Normanby for four years, he gained further experience. In 1878 he purchased his present valuable freehold property of 300 acres, and came to settle in the Kiwitea. He was accompanied by several others, who had determined to carve out homes for themselves in this district, which at that time was a dense forest with no page 1246 roads. All the bush has been felled, and the farm grassed, fenced, and subdivided into paddocks, and it now carries large numbers of sheep and cattle. In 1880 Mr. Barrow married a daughter of Mr. R.M. Taylor, of Mahurangi, Auckland.