More links and websites
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An history of technological innovation in New Zealand: the dairy industry
Information about innovation in dairy farming in New Zealand, including the development of herringbone sheds and rotary milking.
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Eltham man turns milking around
An article on the Puke Ariki website about the invention of the rotary milking platform.
More suggestions and sources
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Arnold, Rollo. Settler Kaponga, 1881–1914: a frontier fragment of the western world. Victoria University Press, 1997.
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Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project, 1990.
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Thornton, Geoffrey G. The New Zealand heritage of farm buildings. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.