Kōrero: Rural workers

Header harvester, 1930

Header harvester, 1930

In the late 1920s the first Sunshine header harvesters were imported from Australia, followed by American machines. Header harvesters cut and threshed wheat and bagged the grain. They were the death knell for threshing machines, which had been used in New Zealand for more than 80 years, but declined in use in the mid-1940s. By 1966 there were some 3,000 header harvesters working in the South Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Making New Zealand Centennial Collection (PAColl-3060)
Reference: MNZ-1616-1/4
Photograph by Green & Hahn

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Carl Walrond, 'Rural workers - Changes in the rural sector', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17221/header-harvester-1930 (accessed 20 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008