Marks/Inscriptions: M: Menzies, John Henry (1839 -1919) was the eldest son op Henry Menzies and was educated privately and at Ch earm - a school which at, that time was patronised by the evangelical side of the Church of Eng. titled ) it was whig families and wealthy merchants t haider the headmaster ship of the Rev. Shep heard. He went to Edi. niv. in 55 and studied Ecology , Chemistry and Botany. In his family his tory he say - that the little Edinburgh lankans would run after you calling out "English English I His father took him for a town on the Contin ent and he went into a shipping and ins man ce brokers office of which his uncle was the chief partner He did not like his work in the office and felt he was a failure and finally his father decided he had better go out to N.Z. After some months on a Yorks. farm named Lover sal he set sail in the Matoaka ants American clipper built ship of 1100 tous. J.E. Fitz Gerald was a passenger after 2 years in Eng as Canty Emigration officer. The ship arrived 1.12.60 passing as she sailed up the harbour what was to be Menzies Bay. He had a large unn ver of letters of in Production but he said that whenever he presented one he was met with coldness and this made a deep impression on him Even R.H. Rhodes at Purangi directed him to the nearest acc onnmno , house. He had made a friend on the J.H. Menzies , Fam. Hist. ; farm inf. : James Hay: Andersen Place Names. LT. 13.2.19; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: M 8s 330 H ship and they decide d to make their way down south . He bought at auction a good little bary mare ea which he called Bottle and he and 7ern rode south by easy stages. He seemed intent on putting as big a gap as to oss able be tween him self and Canter bury and he didn't stop tel he reached Riverton. A few miles alory the coast , h bought 2 sections at Ryal Bush at 301- an acre . He rode back to Otago and bought 40 cows and heifer s at - 7 a head. At this time the gold rush at Gabriels Gully was in full food. He went and had a look at it and was not tempted . The "get-rich-quick " idea dido not ap peal to him; he returned to look after his land and his cattle. His brother Stephen Soo joined him at R.yul Bush. He continued to ride about looking for new country and finally bought 1000 Acres on the Oreti P Cain . He called this place Spar Bush. the land was very rich but subject to flooding . He built a small house and lived there for 7 years . He went in for Eng Leic. sheep at Oreti and also got married: and stephen returned to Eng . He decided that with floods and rabbits getting worse he had better sell Sper Bush. He bought 4000 ac. up the Aparima River not fin from Of entan; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: M3 He built a new house on it and drain ed a Swamp ; he called the place Ringway after his home in Eng. When the house was fished in 74 he was able to get his wife and family back from Riverton. After 3 years there land had risen in value and he decided to sell out and seek a war ar climate. He had been conducting a constant war w ith rabbits and had to grav turnip feed for five winter mouths. He made a good sale to Murray Roberts and came up to Canty. to look for land. Through Matson hie heard f a place near Pigeon Bay + longing to Tom Macintosh whose father, Sandy Macintosh nad first settled there. though the title was not vary good 2 ninnis bur of 20 ac sections with their accompany ang pre- empties rights. He went to the manager of ther v.B.A who was Joseph Palmer an experienced banker who was Willing to make advances f he was satisfied with the Ch.ent. He was willing to advance Menzies £10000 and nader no fuss about it. e bought the Ess in the place for 4t- each and paid for 300 stragglers in the bush, not mustered; he eventually got nearly 600. This story is taken from Menzies ,,he family history , written and illustrated, who had a strong artistic talent. Later he was to conform this talent by his beautiful caring in Little; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: 4 M. 3i0 Akaloa Church using Maori motifs ail though He settled down in Macintosh a Bay in 78. .He had had suck severe experience with rabbits sn Southland that he rabbit need in the whole of his block and for lon P it remained clear. Tom macintosh had : built a 2 story conga ted iron house on top of a hill: d lately f t. now the wharf shed. The price averaged about £5 per acre over all . Macintosh put his money into a coal and fire wood business in Ch.Ch and some small trod ng vessels and made a failure of it. ? n A small steamer , part sail, called the Akaroa oa landed the Menzies family on the beach. They farm d f the climate very mild after Southland. but it happened that their first winter , '78 was one of the hardest ever frown in the Peninsular; the reck froze at the bey , an unheard of thing. There were a lot of pigs in the bush . Menzies soon built a new 8 N house of white pie of the flat at Pigeon Bay. It o.st him £400 and was built by a man called May hew. It was added to various times and was built in rather shady spot. In 1906 it was burnt and he built a buy bungalow further down the Willey ; thes house was bunt down in 1927. d 400 ac. on the lat. He ploughing; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: J. H Menzies. 5 M. 340 baa into h 's sheep twined out to br mongrel lot and he finally sold them . He went to Ashburton and bought a g oed line of merinos Ewes from Acton . He put merino+ Jams with them for some years but. when a series of wet years came. the foot rot was terrible . He used Eng. Leic. gai then but still the foot rot was bad . Gangs of men were always foot rotting ; they used long logs hollowed ont as troughs. Macintosh 's fences were bad or non - existent and Menzies har A big job 1e- fencing the farm. He had good bullock trams and they hated hundreds of cords of firewood of the place. He substituted horses for bullocks burt the bullock drivers did not understand the horses and there were marry Smashes. Menzies and his wife were both strongly religions and Sundays were days of gloom for the family. Nothing could be done , not evern a horse ridden. The beautiful lite church at Little Akaloa was planned by Mercies and he helped with the building and the cost lai.ly fell on him. The interior carving in Maori style is beautifully designed and executed As An account of the consecration and a full account of the church will be; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer
Marks/Inscriptions: M. 31t0 found in Lylt. Times - 2.06 . Whim fenders were called n tenders were received , so0 he himself tendered £800 and he had subscribed nearly this sum to the fund. The church actually cost £110. Among those present was the Rev. R.J. Thorpe whose dar . Eliz. nad married his eldest son Wm. He Cleft Menzies Bay and farmed Glen lyon on Cashmere Hells in his later days and the last 5 years lived on the Hackthorne Rd. He was lay reader Little Akaloa. He d. there 12.2.19 ag. 79. family. wife Eliz. Frances Butler d. about 1909. William b. Southland educ. X's Col 83, succeeded his father at Menzies Bay, also owned land at Tai Tapu + Seafield. Marr. 1.9.94 Gertrude Eliz. dau Ver. Archd. R.J. Thorpe of Sumner . She d. at Sumner , 13.5.03 ag. 86 Henry H. Southland educ. X's Col '83 d. + Typhoid. at College. Stephen . southland, educ. Xs Coll 89-92 . sheep farmer Te Kuha Hastings. Norman Alexander b. Canty. marr. Leeff Doumnville youngest - dau Von Archd. R.J. Thorpe of Sumner. Norman was organist at Little Akaloa church. Wm. d. 15.1.33.; Type of mark: Machine translation/Transcription; Notes: Machine translation by Mark Fryer