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Marmaduke Dixon (settler)

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• ... that the irrigation intake that New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned for is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand? Source: "Heritage listing of the tunnel; "they were met by Marmaduke Dixon (and his son, Marmaduke John) who promoted the merits of what they were convinced would be a better and cheaper intake at Browns Rock" from the history page of Waimakariri Irrigation Limited

• Reviewed: Gudrun Schröfel
• Comment: I'm nominating two articles of identical base name (this is the father; his son is nominated here) and maybe we want to run them together in the same hook set to cause some intrigue.

Created by Schwede66 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:58, 10 December 2020 (UTC).

16px Interesting life on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I like the hook. Unless you want to combine father and son, I'd vote to give each his own. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, Gerda. Just to clarify: I'm suggesting two separate hooks, but run in the same set of hooks. Schwede66 19:42, 11 December 2020 (UTC)