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Job advertisement

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Job advertisement

This advertisement calls for a senior shepherd, specifying the need for high-country mustering experience, stockmanship, and a good team of dogs. Farm work vacancies continue to use terms that have been in use for generations, such as single shepherd, shepherd-general, married man and head shepherd.

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Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Economics and marketing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/document/18627/job-advertisement (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Dianne Bardsley, published 1 March 2009.