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Carting grass seed

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Carting grass seed

Cocksfoot grass seed was grown on Banks Peninsula to help develop North Island grassland farms between the 1890s and early 1900s. This bullock-drawn wagon, laden with sacks of seed, is on its way to the Little River railway station south of Banks Peninsula.

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Macmillan Brown Library, University of Canterbury

Reference: CP 4637

by W. H. Montgomery

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John Wilson, Canterbury region – Agriculture before 1900, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/10321/carting-grass-seed (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 2 March 2009.