Story: Rural workers

Breaking up the estates

This 1907 poster advertises the auction of lots from the Mt Herbert Estate in central Hawke’s Bay. Government policy to break up the large estates in the late 1890s and early 1900s was a major factor in the rise of the family farmer.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: MapColl 832.3gbbd/1907/Acc.36801

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Carl Walrond, 'Rural workers - The family farmer', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/zoomify/17226/breaking-up-the-estates (accessed 7 May 2024)

Story by Carl Walrond, published 24 Nov 2008