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Northern Farming Lifestyles
October 2011
Six generations of farming in Whangaroa
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Sheep farming, dairying, running dry stock and raising pigs have all been part of the Hayes’ farming history by Cynthia Matthews
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he Hayes family of Whangaroa represents six generations of farming in the Whangaroa/Matauri districts. Ian Hayes studied at Massey Agricultural College and returned to work on the family farm at Pupuke, Kaeo. He married Lorelei (nee Williams) and they moved to manage the family trust farm, Tepene Tablelands Ltd, near Matauri Bay. (Lorelei’s book, ‘Waiaua to Kauri Cliffs — the story of a Northland Sheep Station,’ relates some of the history and their life there.) After 12 years they leased a Nick, Anthony and Ian Hayes block which they developed and farmed on their own account, continuing until 2000, five years new garden, sits on the higher ground after the trust sold Tepene. The Kauri Cliffs resort and golf and looks across the river to the land John course was established on the land. Daly Hayes purchased in 1840. The Hayes moved to the northern side of Kaeo to ‘Waikukupa’, Ian understands his Irish forbear a dairy farm of 149.6 hectares within a curve of Kaeo River arrived at the Bay of Islands in the alongside SH10. Much of it is productive reclaimed flats stretching 1820s. from a knoll. “John Daly’s first home was near the The farmhouse, together with Lorelei’s river not far from the Whangaroa and
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