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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Otago & Southland Provincial Districts]

Whitstone

page 478

Whitstone.

Whitstone is the name of an agricultural and dairy farming district, which originally consisted of the Whit-stone sheep station, and has been appropriately named from the white stone which abounds in the locality. It is six miles from Oamaru and two from Enfield, and the main road connecting Oamaru with Ngapara passes through the settlement. The local flag station, which is named Lorne, stands at an elevation of 264 feet above sea level, and is on the branch railway line from Oamaru to Ngapara and Tokarahi. The local ereamery is well supported, and a post office is conducted at the manager's house. Settlers send their children to the public school at Enfield. The land in the district is good in quality, and rests on a limestone formation and the country is undulating in character. Whitstone is in the Waiareka riding of the county of Waitaki, and at the census of 1901 had a population of fifty-one.

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.

Gilchrist, Alexander James , Farmer, Whitstone. Mr. Gilchrist was born in 1882 at Hampden, Otago, and has always followed a country life. He commenced farming on his own account in 1897, at Ote-popo, where, he leased land till May, 1902, when he removed to Whitstone. His property consists of eighty-six acres of leasehold land, which is chiefly devoted to dairy farming. Twenty cows are in milk, and the milk is sent to the local creamery, Mr. Gilchrist served as a volunteer in the Otepopo Rifles for several years. He was married, in 1891, to a daughter of Mr. Thomas Henderson, of Herbert, and has one daughter.