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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]
Avery, Alfred
Avery, Alfred , Farmer, Whistone. Since becoming a landowner at Whitstone, Mr. Avery has increased the area of his farm from 104 to 212 acres, and is going in extensively for dairy farming, which he has found to be more lucrative than agriculture. In the season of 1903 he reaped seventy bushels of oats from a thirty-six acre paddock, but claims to have obtained a considerably higher result in eash from half the area devoted to dairying. The byre on his property is on the most modern design, and will hold about seventy cows, but he intends to increase his herd of milkers to 100. The produce is sent to the Whitstone ereamery. Mr. Avery is referred to in another article as a painter and decorator in Oamaru, and also as a member of the Oamaru Harbour Board, to which he was appointed by the Government as successor to the late Mr. E. Menlove.