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Story: Rural workers

Hodge’s farm cow shed, Inglewood

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Hodge’s farm cow shed, Inglewood

Family members, cows and horses gather around the cow shed on a small Taranaki farm, around the start of the 20th century. North Island farms were usually smaller than those in the South Island, so the labour force was more often family rather than employed workers.

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – The family farmer, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17227/hodges-farm-cow-shed-inglewood (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.