EARLY REAPER AND BINDER
Canterbury Centennial recollections have produced an account of one of the first reaper and binder plants brought to Canterbury. It was imported in the 1870’s by Mr John Hart, who came to New Zealand from Devonshire in 1842. Mr Hart lived in the Kaituna district, at Taumutu, and then in Dunsandel. The cheque of £lBO for the implement and binding wire was sent 12 months ahead of delivery. The local blacksmith was commissioned to assemble the machine, but eager and interested helpers opened the cases and so mixed the fiarts that the job took three weeks, t was asserted that the “new fangled notion” would soon be “stopping a gap in the fence somewhere,” but it cut 300 acres of wheat and oats in the first year and served for 15 more seasons.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26261, 4 November 1950, Page 5
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