TESCHEMAKER-SHUTE, CHARLES DE VERE (1836-1920) was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, and educated at Mount Radford school, Exmouth. He landed in Otago in 1854 and took up several runs in Southland (including Otakaramu), and afterwards managed his brother's Taipo station, near Oamaru. He was member of the Otago Provincial Council for Moeraki (1873-75), and served on several local bodies. In 1876 he took up the Avondale estate in Marlborough, where he was a member of the rabbit board, and the Wairau road board. He helped to promote the Wairau Freezing Co.; was a director of the Farmers' Co-operative association and chairman of the New Zealand wool growers committee. (Teschemaker assumed the additional name of Shute.) He died on 26 Sep 1920.

Parltry Record; Who's Who NZ., 1908; Beattie, ii; Cycl. NZ., iv; Marlborough Express, 27 Sep 1920; Otago Daily Times, 19 May 1930.

Reference: Volume 2, page 192

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