From 'No idle rich: the wealthy in Canterbury and Otago 1840-1914' by Jim McAloon, University of Otago Press, 2002. [New Zealand]

[from Chapter 2]
….“George Moore (d.1905, £253,000) was the son of a Manx landowner, and emigrated (voluntarily) to Van Diemen’s Land in the 1830s. There he worked for Robert Quayle Kermode, a Tasmanian runholder whose fortune went back to whaling at the very beginning of the century. Having married Kermode’s daughter Anne, Moore arrived in North Canterbury in 1853 as managing partner for his father-in-law and another Quayle kinsman. The partnership bought 40,000 acres in North Canterbury for £17,000 and stocked the estate with 6000 Tasmanian merinos; Kermode put in the money, Moore supplied the sheep and the management. Only in 1866 was Moore allowed to buy into the business, and he was managing partner until 1873, when he bought much of Kermode’s share with a £70,000 mortgage from the Union Bank of Australia and another of £40,000 from Tasmanian lenders.“

[from Chapter 4]
….“The most striking example of a daughter inheriting absolutely was, coincidentally, the richest estate in the South Island (in either town or country). George Moore (d. 1905), who owned a vast sheepfarming estate at Glenmark in North Canterbury, left his entire estate to his only child Annie, who had effectively managed the property for the last ten years of his life. He specified his ‘most earnest wish … that her husband … have no control over it’. Annie Townsend, as she was when she died in 1914, left an estate valued at nearly £800,000.”