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Royal visits: woolshed visit, 1958

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Royal visits: woolshed visit, 1958

The Queen Mother visits Green Hill station, Hawke's Bay, where a sheep-shearing demonstration was put on for her. Pictured on the left is Jimmy Puriri, one of the Puriri shearing gang, whose sister Hana Cooper (a wool classer) is shaking hands with the royal visitor.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection

Reference: 1/4-019904-F; QM152

by T. Ransfield

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

Megan Cook, Royal family – Royal tours, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/33159/royal-visits-woolshed-visit-1958 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 27 January 2012.