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Kōrero: Shelter on farms

The Canterbury Plains

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The Canterbury Plains

The Canterbury Plains contain New Zealand’s largest expanse of shelter belts – mostly planted to intercept the prevailing nor’wester wind. Shelter is required not just for livestock, but to protect large areas of cultivated land from erosion by wind.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Allan Gillingham, Shelter on farms – Early shelter, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15593/the-canterbury-plains (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Allan Gillingham, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.