<P> Whilst John Acland and Charles George Tripp arrived in Canterbury in 1855, only four years after organised settlement of Canterbury began, all the suitable land on the Canterbury Plains had already been taken up . They were the first to take up land in the Canterbury high country for sheep farming . </P> <P> George Henry Moore established himself in North Canterbury . His Glenmark Station was for a time New Zealand's largest sheep run, and his daughter established the Christchurch tourist attraction Mona Vale with her inheritance . His biography says of him: </P> <P> Moore stands out in New Zealand pastoral history as a supremely successful runholder in terms of personal wealth . His skill, judgement and sense of timing were of a very high order . Yet without strong financial backing from partners and bank, the full achievement of Glenmark would have been impossible . His 1873 purchase was a bold decision, based on a mortgage of exceptional size to the Union Bank of Australia, which advanced Moore £ 90,000 . The link between banking and large runholding in Canterbury was never more clearly demonstrated . </P> <Dl> <Dt> Early 20th century </Dt> </Dl>

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