William H. Purvis
William Herbert Purvis (November 27, 1858 – December 31, 1950) was a plant collector and investor in a sugarcane Sugar plantations in Hawaii, plantation on the Hawaii (island), island of Hawaii during the late nineteenth century. William Herbert Purvis (also known as Herbert Purvis) was born in Sussex, England. Arrival in Hawaii He and his father John Purvis (1820–1909) came to Hawaii in 1878. A distant cousin, Edith Mary Winifred Purvis, also came to Hawaii and married into the Holdsworth family; their daughter married into the Henry Nicholas Greenwell, Greenwell family (early Kona coffee merchants) and had daughter Amy B. H. Greenwell (1920–1974). Edith's brothers were Robert William Theodore, a businessman on Kauai, and Edward William Purvis who served as King Kalakaua's vice chamberlain. Involvement in plantations The Purvis family were early investors in the Pacific Sugar Mill at Kukuihaele near Waipio Valley, Waipio Valley on the northeast coast "Big Island" of Haw ...
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Macadamia
''Macadamia'' is a genus of four species of trees in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. They are indigenous to Australia, native to northeastern New South Wales and central and southeastern Queensland specifically. Two species of the genus are commercially important for their fruit, the macadamia nut (or simply macadamia). Global production in 2015 was . Other names include Queensland nut, bush nut, maroochi nut, bauple nut and Hawaii nut. In Australian Aboriginal languages, the fruit is known by names such as ''bauple'', ''gyndl'' or ''jindilli'' (north of Great Dividing Range) and ''boombera'' (south of the Great Range). It was an important source of bushfood for the Aboriginal peoples who are the original inhabitants of the area. The nut was first commercially produced on a wide scale in Hawaii, where Australian seeds were introduced in the 1880s, and for some time, they were the world's largest producer. South Africa has been the world's largest producer of the mac ...
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