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Story: Rural workers

Scrub cutters

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Packhorses take in supplies to 35 scrub cutters camped out in the Waitōtara Valley in the Whanganui back country, in 1965.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 165. National Film Unit, 1965

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – The family farmer, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/17229/scrub-cutters (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.