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Kōrero: Rural language

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.

Courtesy of Fernvale Romneys and Otago Daily Times

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Otago Daily Times

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

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

He kōrero nā Dianne Bardsley, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.