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Kōrero: Rural workers

Back from the hills

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Men boil the billy for some tea after the muster in 1955, while footsore sheepdogs limp about.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: The snowline is their boundary. National Film Unit, 1955

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Carl Walrond, Rural workers – Itinerant workers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/17203/back-from-the-hills (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.