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He had the confidence of his workmen and his freezing works at
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flocks, trained young men in farm work and farm management, milled timber from his own property and supplied firewood to his freezing works' furnaces. He controlled 5,000 acres on the
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19:(15 February 1843 – 16 November 1932) was a New Zealand industrialist and farmer described in his obituaries as "the father of Hawkes Bay". He personally managed his Nelson Brothers freezing works at Tomoana for nearly 40 years.
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