Holmes Warren — Transcript

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1. 0:00my name is James Warren
2. 0:03and we're standing here
3. 0:06looking down on Lake nanoki I've been
4. 0:10here all my life I was born in
5. 0:131928
6. 0:15went to school that
7. 0:18purana
8. 0:21um in those days was
9. 0:24the role was 80.
10. 0:27kids
11. 0:29of which
12. 0:30approximately 50
13. 0:33were Maori quite a large Maori
14. 0:36population my first
15. 0:39Playmate was a Maori boy for his father
16. 0:42used to work here we used to
17. 0:45pedal at today around the Lagoon here
18. 0:48and
19. 0:49catch a few Hills and we used to collect
20. 0:52the goose eggs that we used here in
21. 0:55cooking making cake
22. 0:58Devin the gray and Tom McLean bought the
23. 1:02first block of land from the maoris for
24. 1:06cash they came around much
25. 1:09sailing ship and paid for on the spot
26. 1:13my grandfather who was named James
27. 1:17Warren bought this property in 1907.
28. 1:23the original block was 1700 Acres
29. 1:27for which she paid 35
30. 1:30000 pounds
31. 1:32the 1920s my father and his brother
32. 1:35split up and we got the section here
33. 1:40and he died 1944 and then I took over in
34. 1:461948.
35. 1:47and Mike took over
36. 1:491990
37. 1:52the properties around here were pretty
38. 1:56much as they are
39. 1:57now with the exception of being
40. 2:01amalgamation
41. 2:03over the last 50 years of some of the
42. 2:06smaller blocks that weren't really
43. 2:08viable
44. 2:10it's mainly
45. 2:12sheep and Cattle our main business we
46. 2:16sell Rams
47. 2:18really all over the country
48. 2:20we've got a stud flock of Romney's which
49. 2:24my grandfather started in 1907.