Story: Ahuwhenua – Māori land and agriculture
A drover takes his sheep along Waihau Beach, heading towards Gisborne, in 1906. From the late 1800s onwards, the Ngāti Porou people of the East Coast became heavily involved in sheep farming. By 1927, sheep numbers on the East Coast were estimated at half a million.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)
Reference: 1/2-018019; F
Photograph by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves
Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
