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Kōrero: Dairying and dairy products

Milking time

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Milking time

Milking used to be done in the open, sometimes in the middle of a paddock if the cow was quiet enough. More often the cow was held in a simple bail or by a rope halter. Milking was usually the job of women or children.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Beginnings of New Zealand’s dairy industry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15684/milking-time (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.