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Counting-out pens

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Counting-out pens

Once a sheep has been shorn, it is released into a counting pen. This allows an exact tally to be kept of each shearer’s work. These newly shorn sheep are at Mangatoi Station on the Mōkau River, in 1929.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Robert E. Wells Collection (PAColl-0001)

Reference: 1/4-057828; G

by Robert E. Wells

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Robert Peden, Farm buildings – Woolsheds, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18536/counting-out-pens (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.