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Concrete and steel fence

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Concrete and steel fence

Timber was less readily available for fencing in the drier parts of the South Island, where much of the vegetation was tussock. This fence at Middlemarch, Central Otago, consists of concrete posts and steel standards, with six plain wires and a barbed top wire.

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Robert Peden, Farm fencing – Types of wire fence, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15301/concrete-and-steel-fence (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.