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Brancepeth Station was a large sheep run in the Wairarapa. In 1884 the owners, the Beetham family, established a library for workers on the station. Many of the books were popular fiction, which the stationhands would have enjoyed on their days off.
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J. C. Beaglehole Room, Victoria University of Wellington Library
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by M. D. King
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