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Robert Heaton Rhodes
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Robert Heaton Rhodes was a New Zealand politician who represented the Akaroa electorate from 1871 to 1874, when he resigned. He was elected unopposed in 1871.
Purau
…started a farm here. They sold to the Rhodes brothers in 1847 (William Barnard and George, with the latter taking over management of the station). When Robert Heaton Rhodes, another of the Rhodes brothers, came to New Zealand in 1850, he took over Purau. Purau is described by Statistics New Zealand as a rural settlement…
Robert Heaton Rhodes in the 1860s