LONGBEACH HOMESTEAD
DESTRUCTION BY FIRE HISTORIC ASSOCIATIONS (Per United Press Association) ASHBURTON, Nov. 15. The Longbeach homestead and its contents, which were destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon, were insured in the Alliance Office. It was James Edward Fitz Gerald, first Superintendent of Canterbury and founder of the Press, who gave the name •to the property, which was taken up by Mr John Grigg in 1864. An interesting feature of the history of the estate was that Mr W. F. Massey, who was later to become Prime Minister of New Zealand, worked on Longbeach in his youth. . . The Longbeach Dutch Friesians, the first of their kind to be introduced to this country, are famed throughout New Zealand. They were obtained in Holland by Mr J. C. N. Grigg and were landed at Lyttelton in 1884. The station, which has earned the name of the “model farm of the world,” was famed for the extensiveness of its grain-growing industry before subdivision. Stud sheep and racing stock are also kept on the property.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23350, 16 November 1937, Page 13
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