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.
James Fletcher Jnr Sir James Muir Cameron Fletcher ONZ (25 December 1914 – 29 August 2007), often known as Jim or JC Junior, was a New Zealand industrialist known for heading Fletcher Construction, one of the country's largest firms. His father, Sir James Fletcher (Senior), founded the company in 1908.