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'Ready Money'
'Ready Money'

'Ready Money'

The Life of William Robinson of Hill River, South Australia and Cheviot Hills, North Canterbury

By Margaret Wigley

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

424 Pages, 6.75 x 9.5

Trade Paper, $24.99 (US $24.99) (CA $31.99)

Publication Date: December 2006

ISBN 9781877257421

Rights: WOR X NZ

Canterbury University Press (Dec 2006)

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Overview

Lancashire-born William Robinson, know as 'Ready Money' because he usually paid in cash, developed a great estate at Cheviot in North Canterbury, in the 19th century, after first amassing assets in South Australia, his first destination as an emigrant.

Author Biography

Margaret Wigly is William Robertson's great-grandaughter. She has drawn on the Cheviot Hills Station diaries and other original sources to bring us this lively account of her notable forebear.
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