Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

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

Miske, Gustav

Miske, Gustav , Farmer, Green Valley Farm, Te Tua. Mr Miske was born in 1858, near Berlin, Germany, where he was educated and brought up to farming. He arrived at Port Chalmers by the ship “Nelson,” in 1884, and settled in the Makarewa district, where he engaged in sawmilling and farm work. In 1898, Mr Miske bought 295 acres of bush land at Te Tua, on the deferred-payment system.

Lake Manapouri.

Lake Manapouri.

page 954 Of this, thirty-five acres have already been cleared, and the owner of a sawmill now working on the land, has bought the timber from 260 acres. Mr Miske was for some time a member of the Te Tua school committee. He was married, on the 23rd of December, 1885, to a daughter of Mr Ferdinant Ludtke, of Germany, and has had three sons and three daughters, of whom two sons and two daughters have died.
Gerstenkorn, photo. Mr. and Mrs G. Miske and Children.

Gerstenkorn, photo.
Mr. and Mrs G. Miske and Children.