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Wool handler at work

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Wool handler at work

A rousie or wool handler throws a merino fleece onto the wool table at Glentanner Station woolshed in the Mackenzie Country. The rousie will pick off the dirty and scrag ends of wool before rolling up the fleece for baling.

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New Zealand Herald

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by Sarah Ivey

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Robert Peden, Farm buildings – Woolsheds, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18490/wool-handler-at-work (accessed 4 June 2026).

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