Kōrero: Dune lands

Farmland, Houhora

Farmland, Houhora

Drifting sands bury mānuka and flax (foreground), and pasture and stockyards behind, in Northland in 1926. A western-style movie, Riders of the red manuka, was filmed here with the dunes as a backdrop. Grazing livestock and burning in coastal areas during the late 1800s and early 1900s cleared vegetation in many coastal areas, making it easier for the wind to blow sand about.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/2-026782; F

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Carl Walrond, 'Dune lands - The ‘problem’ of drifting sands', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/14038/farmland-houhora (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 24 Sep 2007