Story: Farm buildings

More links and websites

• 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.

• Eltham man turns milking around

  An article on the Puke Ariki website about the invention of the rotary milking platform.

More suggestions and sources

• Arnold, Rollo. Settler Kaponga, 1881–1914: a frontier fragment of the western world. Victoria University Press, 1997.
• Martin, John E. The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Trade Union History Project, 1990.
• Thornton, Geoffrey G. The New Zealand heritage of farm buildings. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.