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Kōrero: Agricultural education

Ruakura Experimental Station

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Ruakura Experimental Station

Ruakura was one of the Department of Agriculture’s first experimental stations and New Zealand’s first farm school. This view of the station is from about 1905, before the school had opened, and shows trial plots and animal enclosures.

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Christchurch City Libraries

Reference: PhotoCD 1 IMG0092

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Robert Peden, Agricultural education – Training farms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16924/ruakura-experimental-station (accessed 4 June 2026).

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