Giles Family

Clarkville

North Canterbury, New Zealand


Giles & Holland


Giles & Holland c1900

Kneeling: Mr Chapman, girl & boy unknown,

Tom Saunders, Frederick John Holland with a loaf of bread, Alex Belcher (cook)

Standing: Tom Burgess, Robert Benjamin Giles, Benjamin Giles, Ralph Wilson with scoop,

George Robert Holland, Benjamin Lot Clothier, Bob Burgess Jim Cherry on mill, Edward Giles on water cart,

horse Tommy, Obed Charles Holland and the Moore boys on engine

 

Ada Holland & Sons on Somerset Farm c1938

One of their two threshing mills, engine and whares. There was a partnership between Ada and her brother Edward. Later this was terminated and Holland Sons operated separately.

Leonard Giles also operated a threshing mill. The two Holland mills were sold in 1936.

 

Carting straw for Mrs Tozer. Bill Vaughan, Leonard Giles (on engine), Frederick John Holland,

Henry Creamer, Victor Rix Giles, Walter Giles

 

At T Hassall's (Snr) farm. Holland & Giles traction engine and mill.

Obed Charles Holland on the engine, John Edward Holland (with dog), Leonard Giles on top of mill.

 

Holland & Giles McLaren traction engine and wagon loading bagged potatoes

onto the 'SS Wootton' at the Kaiapoi River wharf.


Brian W Smith, P O Box 40351, Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Email: knightsmith(at)xtra.co.nz


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