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Cattle stop

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Cattle stop

A cattle stop makes travel easy for motorists, who can drive over the metal grid, whereas stock will normally not cross it. This cattle stop on the Loganburn run in Central Otago is lightly constructed, so heavy vehicles have to go through the gate.

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Otago Daily Times

by Gerard O'Brien

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Robert Peden, Farm fencing – Gates and other barriers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15315/cattle-stop (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.