_The Evening Post_, 8 May 1925:
PERSONAL MATTERS
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Mr. C. N. #Orbell, one of the oldest and best-known residents of South #Canterbury, who died at his home, “The Levels,” #Timaru, on Tuesday evening, after a long illness, was born in 1841 at Essex, where he was educated. He came to New Zealand in the sailing ship Metropolis, in 1863, landing at Lyttelton. … He was interested in sport of all sorts. But it is in connection with his work as a sheep breeder that Mr. Orbell’s name will be best remembered. He and Mr. W. S. Davison were originators of the #Corriedale sheep, the most noted breed in New Zealand to-day, and if he had done nothing but this his name would be entitled to a place in the list of those who have rendered the Dominion signal service. Mr. Orbell married Miss Fergusson, a cousin to a former Governor of New Zealand—Sir James Fergusson—in 1879. He had five children—Mr. W. H. Orbell, Mr. C. I. Orbell, Mrs. Maurice Harper, and the Misses Orbell (two).
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250508.2.106
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corriedale

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_The Evening Post_, 24 September 1924:
            ROMNEY FLEECES
              VARYING VIEWS
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               LONDON, 16th August.
  … the "Manchester Guardian" [reported that] … Mr. F. A. Aykroyd (President of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce) is convinced that “a marked deterioration has taken place in the clip of New Zealand.” He puts this down to the extensive use of the #Romney as a sire.…
  “At first sight they looked perfect, … good length, with sufficient curl in the staple and serration in the fibre…. [but] the fault … [is] strong fibres … intermingled with fine fibres.…”
  Mr. J. S. Jessep, one of the largest owners of Romney flocks in the North Island, … [contends] … that the buyers of wool surely are the best judges of what they want, and … that Romney wool has averaged for North Island clip prices well on a par with any other crossbred wool…. the Romney sheep has made the North Island, from a sheepfarmers’ point of view….
  “It would be just as reasonable … to ask the English farmers to run llamas … as to ask North Island sheepfarmers to go back to the merino cross, for which the climate is not suitable. It is only since the Romney Marsh sheep were used extensively that the North Island stations began to pay.”
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240924.2.110

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