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Hierarchy of staff

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Hierarchy of staff

This hierarchy is typical of a mixed crop and livestock South Island estate running a large sheep flock, around the 1860s.

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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Adapted from: John E. Martin, The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project, 1990, p. 99

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – Large sheep runs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/diagram/17197/hierarchy-of-staff (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.