Harvey and Kirk Farm, late c.1882 (Greerton) (Place)

SummaryA c.600-acre farm operated by the butchery partnership of William Harvey and Henry Kirk, located less then two and a half kilometres from Greerton and eight kilometres from Tauranga. It fronted the Greerton Racecourse, bounded by Pye’s Pa and Tauranga Roads, and extending back to the Waimapu River. By 1882 it was divided into eleven paddocks, largely ploughable, and mostly laid down in English grasses.

The farm supplied the firm’s butchery operations, running c.70 cattle, 50 pigs, and 120 sheep, with a further c.1000 sheep at Ōtūmoetai. Cropping included maize, potatoes (c.10 tons on ¾ acre), and rye, with c.150 tons of hay produced annually.

It had a bone-crushing mill to convert slaughter waste into fertiliser, alongside standard machinery (ploughs, harrows, reaper, chaff-cutter). Purebred Berkshire pigs and draught mares were bred. Stock were sent in batches to the firm’s slaughterhouse.

Hunting with Hounds often took place over this farm.SourcesChats with farmers: Bay of Plenty Times 2 June 1882Early Tauranga County History - Tauranga Suburbs to Pyes Pa Cemetery: page 66Journal of the Tauranga Historical Society Number 47: page 7

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LocationFfronting the Greerton Racecourse, bounded by Pye’s Pa and Tauranga Roads, and extending back to the Waimapu River

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PeopleHarvey, William, 1832-1917 (Person)

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Harvey and Kirk Farm, late c.1882 (Greerton) (Place)