Johnston senior of Wellington was the original purchaser of which large property in Australia or New Zealand whose main activity is the raising of sheep for their wool and meat?
Oruawharo Homestead Oruawharo Homestead is an historic homestead built in 1879 in Takapau, Central Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. It was designed by Wellington architect Charles Tringham in the Italianate style and built from native timbers for Sydney and Sophia Johnston by Sydney's father, the politician and merchant John Johnston. Johnston senior of Wellington was the original purchaser of the run in the 1850s. Sydney Johnston had the nearby Takapau township surveyed in 1876.
Atley Station Atley Station is a pastoral lease that operates as a sheep and goat station in Western Australia. The property is historically significant for its long association with the pastoral industry in the Sandstone district.