Story: Timekeeping
When people worked in large groups, standard times for starting and finishing became necessary. Even on Teviot sheep station in Otago in the 1880s, the rules for shearers laid down precise times for work and for ‘smoko’.
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Reference: John Martin, The forgotten worker: the rural wage earner in nineteenth-century New Zealand. Wellington: Allen & Unwin/Trade History Project, 1990, p. 95
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