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Colin’s farming life

olin was born in 1940 and raised on the family’s sheep and cropping farm near Duntroon in North Otago. He and his brother Neville bought the neighbouring property in 1964 and farmed it in conjunction with the original property. When Colin married Catherine Peart in 1967 they lived in a house on the partnership farm for three years.

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