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James Busby SEO Test Profile

today: 10th November 2020
...In March 1832 he was appointed to the position of British Resident of New Zealand and went to the Bay of Islands, taking with him some of the vine stock he had collected in Europe. He married Agnes Dow at Segenhoe, in the Hunter Valley,.....

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Back Roads: A visit to a Mangawhai Vineyard in 1872

today: 31st October 2020
...is the wine growing capital of New Zealand (I could be wrong of course − correct me if I am). However the Viticulture Industry began here in Northland with James Busby and other noted persons who had settled in the Bay of Islands...

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Small but beautiful where history began − Wairarapa Times Age

over a year ago: 12th February 2011
...Yet the Far North can lay claim to being this nations oldest wine region because the first vines in New Zealand were planted in the Bay of Islands by the missionary Samuel Marsden way back in 1819. In 1832, James Busby − New Zealands first public servant.....

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