Station Amusements in New Zealand

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By Listen TheBook Posted on Jun 1, 2023

In Category - Memoirs

Authors: Mary Anne Barker In Year : 1873

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Station Amusements in New Zealand

Preface
Chapter I: A bush picnic
Chapter II: Eel-fishing
Chapter III: Pig-stalking
Chapter IV: Skating in the back country
Chaper V: Toboggon-ing
Chapter VI: Buying a run
Chapter VII: Buying a run -- continued
Chapter VIII: Looking for a congregation
Chapter IX: Another shepherd's hut
Chapter X: Swaggers
Chapter XI: Changing servants
Chapter XII: Culinary troubles
Chapter XIII: Amateur servants
Chapter XIV: Our pets
Chapter XV: A feathered pet
Chapter XVI: Doctoring without a diploma
Chapter XVII: Odds and ends

Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand during the 1860s and is a further embellishment of events presented in Mary Anne Barker’s first book "Station Life in New Zealand". Mary Anne Barker and her husband Frederick Broomie lived at their sheep station “Broomielaw” under the foothills of the Southern Alps of Canterbury, New Zealand for three years from 1865 – 1868. Mary Anne Barker wrote in Chapter I: “I purpose therefore in these sketches to describe some of the pursuits which afforded us a keen enjoyment at the time, --an enjoyment arising from perfect health, simple tastes, and an exquisite climate.” (Summary by Gail Timmerman Vaughan)