Bushey Park (North Otago) Traditional Cache
Bushey Park (North Otago)
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Bushey Park has had an interesting history. The Rich family owned it in late part of the nineteenth century. They fenced off 200 acres of the property where they ran six imported Scottish deer along with pheasants, quail and hare. This game provided sport for Dunedin’s elite.
The Otago Acclimatisation Society received six Red Deer from Dalhousie in Scotland. The Deer arrived in Dunedin on the frigate City of Dunedin on 21st of January 1871. This was followed with nine further Deer on the Warrior Queen in March of the same year. These Deer were liberated at Bushy Park near Palmerston the earlier arrivals at Morven Hills near Lake Hawea. The 2 groups eventually joined together.From Bushey Park three Deer were later captured and liberated on Matapiro Station. It is the off spring of these Deer that now roam the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Ranges in the Central North Island.So Red Deer became
From 1890 Bushey Park went through some lean years passing through several owners who sold blocks of land off the property.
In the 1920s J.G Johnson chairman of Wrightson Stevens bought the property, also buying back the sold off land. He also established the Corriedale stud for which Bushey Park became renowned.
Bushey Park has one QE11 covenanted area and another two are in the process of being formed.
The covenanted area includes the site of a 14th century Maori village and a 16.2ha stand of native bush.
Pines have been planted to utilise and stabilise steep, slip prone land, adding to a total area of 100 ha that has been planted in pines and 1.2ha of Redwoods, all contributing to the long-term economic viability of the property.
Bushey Park Road used to continue to the mouth of the Shag River but in 2007 the owner of the property made an application for the "stopping" or permanent closure of the road with alternative access to be provided.
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