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Kōrero: Rural language

Sharemilker’s cottage

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Sharemilker’s cottage

A sharemilker works on someone else’s dairy farm for a share of the profits, and may own part or all of the dairy herd. Often dairy farms have a modest cottage like the one circled to accommodate the sharemilker’s family. Behind it is the more substantial farmhouse.

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by Nic Gorman

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Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Economics and marketing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18625/sharemilkers-cottage (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Dianne Bardsley, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.