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 as White Rock for a Wellington company until the company broke up, when Mr. McFarlane purchased the estate and lived on it, and developed it for many years. After a time he bought a very fine block of land near Rangiora called Coldstream, on which he grew, on an extensive scale, very fine wheat. Mr. McFarlane was one of the first among New Zealand farmers to ship wheat to the Old Country. He was an excellent farmer, and successful in his undertakings. He left a large family of six sons and three daughters, the former of whom are, like their father, successful farmers.

George Field, Mrs. Field and family, 1852-3. Mr. Field arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1845, came to Wellington shortly afterwards, and fought in the Maori war in Wanganui in the end of the ’forties, and was many times under fire. In 1852-3 he came to Lyttelton, where he married and settled down in Port Levy, acquiring, in course of time, a fine property, which he now owns, though at present leased to one of his sons. He had a family of eight sons and two daughters, who are still alive (1911), as is he himself, at the age of eighty-seven.

George Boleyn, Mrs. Janet Boleyn, James, Harriet, Elizabeth, George, 1851. This