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Milk boys

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Milk boys

Māori children hold their milk pails on a North Island dairy farm in 1910. Children often helped their parents with the daily chore of hand-milking the herd.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: 1/1-010902; G

by Northwood Brothers

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – The family farmer, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17230/milk-boys (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.