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Kōrero: Horses

Ploughing with horses

Video file

A Canterbury farmer was still using his team of horses to plough his land for wheat in 1953.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 14. National Film Unit, 1953

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Emma Meyer, Horses – Horses and farming, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/19275/ploughing-with-horses (accessed 10 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Emma Meyer, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.