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Mackenzie, Duncan 1943-

Braemar Station : celebrating 50 years of Mackenzie farming life / Duncan and Carol Mackenzie. - [Timaru], New Zealand : Duncan and Carol Mackenzie [2022] - 349 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Prologue -- 1. Remembering Takitu -- 2. Travel overseas -- 3. Duncan back home -- 4. Finding Braemar: a new beginning -- 5. Getting to Braemar -- 6. The year's work: spring to spring -- 7. Correspondence School days -- 8. Mustering: horses to helicopters -- 9. Musters -- 10. Sheep -- 11. Shopping: 1970s and [1980s] -- 12. The odd rescue -- 13. Gardens -- 14. Snow and floods -- 15. Pets and pests -- 16. New Zealand Defence Force -- 17. Telephones -- 18. Trees and forests -- 19. Compensation -- 20. The lake -- 21. The Braemar Games -- 22. Interesting people -- 23. Film locations -- 24. Travellers and visitors -- 25. Pony tales -- 26. Tenure review -- 27. The young returning home -- 28. People who worked with us -- 29. Art ventures -- 30. Club 52 -- 31. Faros -- 32. Farming achievements -- 33. Recreation off the farm -- 34. Changing of the guard.

"Braemar is a 64,000 acre station situated on the eastern side of Lake Pukaki in the Mackenzie Country. Duncan and Carol began farming it in 1970 and the book covers [fifty] years ... of farming history on Braemar and the Mackenzie. The book covers many historical events that have shaped modern farming life in NZ, including tenure review, lake raising, mustering, floods, snow storms and the myriad of wonderful people from all over New Zealand who worked with Duncan and Carol on Braemar. Written with the help of a meticulously kept farming diary kept by Duncan over fifty years of farming, and a wealth of detailed and captioned photography albums kept by Carol."--

ISBN: 9780473623302 0473623307

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Agriculture--New Zealand --Mackenzie District.
Farmers--New Zealand --Mackenzie District --Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Dewey Class. No.: 636.01