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Kōrero: Rural language

High country musterers

Video file

A team of musterers and their dogs set off into the South Island high country to gather in sheep. The men each have their ‘beat’, a specific area they will be working in.

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

Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Sheep and dairy farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/18608/high-country-musterers (accessed 4 June 2026).

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