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Deer farming

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Deer farming

A mob of hinds gathers on a farm near Hokitika on the West Coast. The pine posts at right make up a stay assembly designed to take the strain of the 1.9-metre netting used for deer fencing. Intermediate posts at regular intervals hold up the netting.

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Robert Peden, Farm fencing – High-tensile and electric fencing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15307/deer-farming (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.