Shearing sheep
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Shearing sheep
Transport difficulties, infertile soils and small land holdings meant that Northland farming was slow to develop. But gradually the land was broken in for sheep and cattle farming. This Māori shearing gang was working at the Bay of Islands in the early 1900s.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-008465; F
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