Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Gunn te tuawha o nga tamariki tokorima a Isabella Grierson Robertson me tana tahu, a Alexander Gunn. He hepara i mua, he pāmu hipi a Alexander Gunn e 27,000 eka i Central Otago. Mo te kura tuarua i noho a David ki Hook, tata ki Waimate, me ona whaea keke wahine i runga i to raatau 500 eka. Ka mutu tana kura, ka whai ia i etahi atu mema o te whanau ki Dalgety's (he kamupene ahuwhenua), e mahi ana hei kaikawe i tetahi tari tari i mua i tana whakatau kaore i pai ki a ia te mahi. I hoki ia ki te mahi, kātahi ka whakahaere i te pāmu i Hook. I whakaakona ia ki te whakangungu hōia ki te puni hōia o Trentham i te tau 1918, engari i whakaekehia ia
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