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2 DATE BEF. JUL 1890 2 PLAC Upper Tutaenui School 2 DATE 5 JUL 1890 2 PLAC Enrolled at Silverhope School 2 DATE 24 JAN 1893 2 PLAC re Enrolled at Silverhope School 2 DATE BEF. JUL 1890 2 PLAC Upper Tutaenui School Henry was always known as Dick. Two versions as to why he got this nickname. 1] he was always reading the dictionary, 2] He was a little "know all" so one of the brothers started calling him Dick as short for dictionary. Either could be true. He was an intelligent man and the lack of schooling did not appear to have created any problems in later life. Henry started his working life at the age of 12 years, along with his brothers clearing bush at Pahikura,and the Sandon Block out from Hunterville. They were out in the bush for months at a time. To obtain supplies they would have to go via horseback to Hunterville, along with a packhorse, and return to the bush camp. The exercise taking a whole day. The main supplies were collected about every six months by horse and cart. One story that he told was of one of the brothers going into Hunterville with the horse and cart for the supplies and having to spend a week in Huntervile waiting for the weather to come fine. Flour and sugar was bought by the bag and you had to have fine weather or they would have got wet. Their diet was simple but and they all learnt how to make damper bread. They had some animals for food so always had fresh meat and grew vegetables. One story that he told was of a sheep getting into the vegetable garden and all the vegetables were no more, neither was there a sheep. As land was cleared it was converted into farms and the boys farmed them, initially in pairs. Henry and Colin, and when Colin married Henry returned to the home farm at Parakaretu. Lionel and Robert and when Lionel got married Robert returned to the home farm. Dick was a handyman, very good at building. When they were out the Sandon block Zachariah sent out timber to build a sheep shed. At this stage the boys were living in a punga whare. Dick didn't see why the sheep should have better accommodation than he did so he built a two room building for their use with the wood. The remains of that building are still standing in 1997 albeit it with a hole in th roof. The building is unusal in that the outside boards perpendicular instead of vertical as is usual. This building would be at least 80 years old and probably older.