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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Wellington Provincial District]
Haythorne, Edward Curtis
Haythorne, Edward Curtis, Farmer Fowlers (Birmingham). Mr. Haythorne, who is a son of the late Hon. R. P. Haythorne—for many years a Canadian Senator—was born in 1863 on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and was educated at Middleton College, Cork. After three years' farming in Canada, Mr. Haythorne returned to England, where he spent twelve months, after which he came to New Zealand in 1883, per P. and O. liner “Ballarat” on her first voyage, and entered into partnership with Mr. Revington-Jones, taking up 600 acres of good sheep-grazing country at Taonui, close to Feilding. The partnership was dissolved after three years, and Mr. Haythorne took up 600 acres, within a mile-and-a-half of Fowlers, where he pastures sheep and cattle. Partly improved when he took it over, he has since had the remainder felled, fenced, and subdivided into paddocks, and a large part is now under cultivation. A comfortable homestead has been erected on the farm, to which a lawn has been added, the whole being well sheltered by ornamental trees. Mr. Haythorne has resigned from the Kiwitea County Council, and devotes his spare time to making improvements page 1251 on the homestead. In 1889 he married a daughter of the late Mr. John Worthington, of Hawkes Bay.