Kōrero: Farmer and grower organisations

‘Massey’s cossacks’

‘Massey’s cossacks’

This squadron of Prime Minister William Massey’s mounted special constables are in Hanson Street, Wellington, near the Basin Reserve, during the 1913 waterfront strike. Most of these men were farmers and farm workers, and their participation in this exercise was organised by the Farmers’ Union. The violence with which they broke the strike earned them the name, ‘Massey’s cossacks’.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Sydney Charles Smith Collection (PA-Group-00242)
Reference: 1/2-048777; G
Photograph by Sydney Charles Smith

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Willie Smith and Steven Kelly, 'Farmer and grower organisations - Political organisations', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18671/masseys-cossacks (accessed 28 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Willie Smith and Steven Kelly, i tāngia i te 24 Nov 2008, reviewed & revised 30 Nov 2023