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Kōrero: Fire and agriculture

Burning, Pukatore Station

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Burning, Pukatore Station

Clouds of smoke billow from forest on Pukatore Station on the East Coast, in the early 1900s. In the foreground, near the farmhouse, are trees destroyed by an earlier burn.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)

Reference: 1/2-032845; F

by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves

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, Fire and agriculture – North Island farms: bush and fern, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15212/burning-pukatore-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

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