YOUNG WOMAN AS FARMER

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1927, Page 10

YOUNG WOMAN AS FARMER

MISS ALMA BAKER’S SCHEME. For a young woman to settle on a big farm of her own, with its attendant duties and responsibilities, is a task for which few women have the inclination. However, on arrival at Auckland by the Mara ma from Sydney on Tuesday was Miss J. Alma Baker, daughter of Mr. C. Alma Baker, well known in New Zealand as the friend and companion of Zane Grey in his recent deep-set fishing adventures. Miss Baker, who accompanied Mr. Baker from Sydney, will proceed shortly to a 12,000-acre sheep and cattle farm which her father has purchased for her in the Tuakau district. The property, situated at Limestone Downs, 15 miles out from Tuakau, is partly grass and partly bush, and will provide Mr. Baker and his family with a permanent interest in New Zealand, as he expects to spend a good deal of his time in the Dominion in the future. Miss Baker is very fond of riding and she has lived on sheep and cattle stations most of her life. Mr. Baker intends to stock the farm with Polled Angus cattle and Southdown sheep, but attention will also be paid to the breeding of stock and thoroughbreds. On his way to New Zealand from the Federated Malay States, where he has extensive rubber and tin interests, he selected a quan- | tity of purebred stock in Australia for putting on the new farm.