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Kōrero: Beef farming

Shipmates

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Shipmates

This drawing, done by John Pearse on board the Canterbury Association ship Duke of Portland in 1851, illustrates the close association of livestock and passengers on the long voyage to New Zealand. Here passengers sit on the cow box on deck while the cow within peers out.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: E-455-f-013

by John Pearse

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Robert Peden, Beef farming – 19th-century beef farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/17324/shipmates (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.