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Milk boys

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.

About this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PAColl-3077)
Reference: 1/1-010902; G
Photograph by Northwood Brothers

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Carl Walrond. 'Rural workers', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/rural-workers/6/6