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Kōrero: Shows and field days

The Ivel agricultural motor

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The Ivel agricultural motor

In 1904 Robert McNab, the local member of the House of Representatives, imported the first tractor into New Zealand, and it went on display at the Gore A & P show. These locals are admiring the new machinery. They could also inspect seed drills, reapers, furrowers, harrows, horse-rakes, ploughs, turnip-ridgers and a high windmill.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: Otago Witness, 14 December 1904

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Jock Phillips, Shows and field days – Showing animals, produce and machinery, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16767/the-ivel-agricultural-motor (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.