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Story: Hops, tobacco and hemp

Hop picking

Watch footage of families picking hops in Nelson in 1944.

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Reference: Weekly Review 139. National Film Unit, 1944

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Jim McAloon, Hops, tobacco and hemp – Hops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/17031/hop-picking (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Jim McAloon, published 1 March 2009.