Plough (Far North) Multi-Cache
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Co ords take you to momument for Rawiri Taiwhanga, recognised as the first commercial Dairy Farmer in New Zealand.
In agriculture Taiwhanga was the first Maori to plough, and indeed the first Maori to build himself a plough. This required the mastery of engineering skills and the working with timber. On 3 May 1820 he ploughed half an acre of ground at the Mission Station in Kerikeri. Rawiri was John Butler’s foreman and the plough was first used in New Zealand to plough land at the Kerikeri Church Missionary Society mission station in 1820.
Rawiri mastered the horticultural skills of growing such exotic plants as hops and strawberries, of ornamental roses.
Being foreman at the Mission house Taiwhanga had the opportunity to handle domestic animals. By 1827 a herd, estimated at about 100, of cattle grazed at the Mission Station. When Taiwhanga moved to Kaikohe in about 1834 he acquired enough cattle, Durham shorthorns most probably, to start his own dairy herd.
Taiwhanga grew maize and wheat, and may even have had a hand for grinding his wheat. It is probable that Rawiri Taiwhanga’s household was the first one to bake bread and to welcome European guests with milk to drink abd bread and butter to eat.
Use Plaque on site for clues to final cache location
Final Cache location is S 35° 24.(186+A) E 173° 48.(430+B)
A= Year Taiwhanga finished operating one of first dairy farms in this vicinity +1, minus the year he started
B = Number of cows in his Kaikohe dairy heard at peak + 12
Please conceal the cache as found to keep it safe from muggles.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Znt. Rpyvcfr Gva. Ybbx hc.
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