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Kōrero: Farm buildings

Counting-out pens

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Counting-out pens

Once a sheep has been shorn, it is released into a counting pen. This allows an exact tally to be kept of each shearer’s work. These newly shorn sheep are at Mangatoi Station on the Mōkau River, in 1929.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Robert E. Wells Collection (PAColl-0001)

Reference: 1/4-057828; G

by Robert E. Wells

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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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/18536/counting-out-pens (accessed 4 June 2026).

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