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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

Upper Takaka

Upper Takaka.

Upper Takaka is on the main road, and is about sixteen miles from Takaka, and forty-three from Nelson, with which, like Takaka, it is connected by a coach service. General farming is carried on in the district, and there is an hotel in the township, which has also a sawmill.

Carson's Boarding House (Mrs Carson, proprietress), Upper Takaka, contains three bedrooms, and two sitting-rooms, with a dining-room to seat twenty guests. The house is of recent construction, and was built as an accommodation house. Everything is scrupulously clean and neat. The charges are moderate—namely, one shilling all round. Horses receive attention at one shilling per feed, with good paddocks at night.

Mrs Carson's Boardinghouse.

Mrs Carson's Boardinghouse.

Mr. Joseph Beardmore , sometime of “Daisy Hill,” Upper Takaka, had 300 acres of freehold land at the extreme head of the Takaka Valley, in the fork of the two ranges. The original section of about forty acres was taken up in 1867, and the remainder had been added by Mr. Beardmore from time to time, as the result of thrift and honest toil on his part, and on the part of his wife and family. Between 600 and 700 Southdown-Lincoln sheep are depastured on the property, which consists of excellent grazing country. Mr. Beardmore was born in England, and emigrated to Australia when the gold “rush” was at its height. He was at Ballarat, but finally took to cattle dealing and station life. In 1861 he crossed to Nelson in the brig “Active” (Captain Johnson.) For six or seven years he took whatever offered in the nature of work in Nelson and Marlborough. Towards the end of the sixtie, he left a butchery business at Nelson, and moved to Takaka, where he took up his original section of forty acres. He literally, as a backwoodsman, carved out for himself, his wife and family, a home in a thickly wooded country, where it was long before a good macadamised road placed him in easy communication with the outer world. Mr. Beardmore died during the year 1904.

Mr. John Rogers , sometime of “Willowdale,” Upper Takaka, was born at Ellesmere, in Shropshire, England, in 1829, and arrived in Nelson in August, 1865. After his arrival, he went farming at Stoke, but upon receipt of the news of his father's death, he revisited England. On returning to New Zealand he settled at Takaka, where he bought and successfully cultivated 495 acres of land. Mr. Rogers was a member of the school committee. An attack of influenza brought on bronchitis, to which he succumbed, after a short illness, on the 29th of September, 1898. Mr. Rogers left a family of four sons and four daughters.

The Late Mr. J. Rogers.

The Late Mr. J. Rogers.