Monavale Homestead - 1910 - 2010

Channing often left for North America to pick up the best Holstein Friesians and Romney Marsh sheep that he could find. He travelled with a stock handler. The beginning herd acquired there was 17 heifers and one bull.

They were bought back to New Zealand by the handler on the old S.S Makura. He bought and raised stock for conformity to improve and sell the stock, not for beef.

He started exhibiting very soon, in Cambridge, Hamilton, and Auckland, then later in the U.S and Mexico City. His stock won scores of ribbons, medals, plates, and cups. He made a name for himself and was able to sell to South Africa, South America, Mexico and the U.S.

Some of the finest cattle and sheep in the world was coming from the Waikato Valley.