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Stock work at Flock House

Stock work at Flock House

Farm trainees at Flock House could practise their stock-handling skills in the woolshed and sheep yards. These 1952 trainees are forcing ewes and lambs into the yards on horseback, whereas today’s farm workers are more likely to be on motorbikes.

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Robert Peden, Agricultural education – Training farms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16926/stock-work-at-flock-house (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.

Comments

Heather Bardell
19 May 2013
I lived at Parawanui for the first ten years of my life and we had a great time at flock house BUT can any one please help me, In the main foyer there was a big ship in a glass case, can anyone please tell me the name of this ship and what has happened to it and where it is now, As my father in law and his brothers were bought out and based at Flock House as young men, we would be very grateful to find out about this ship as it could have been a model of the one on which the boys traveled. Any help would be gratefully received. Thank you Heather Bardell