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Kōrero: Farm fencing

Plaque for boundary dogs

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Plaque for boundary dogs

This plaque is a monument to the boundary dogs that were once used to prevent sheep escaping from one station to another. Sited at the intersection of State Highway 8 and the Haldon Road, near Burkes Pass in South Canterbury, it reads: ‘In early times before these roads were fenced, a boundary dog was kennelled here to hold back station sheep’.

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by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Robert Peden, Farm fencing – Gates and other barriers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15314/plaque-for-boundary-dogs (accessed 4 June 2026).

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