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Royal visits: woolshed visit, 1958

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Royal visits: woolshed visit, 1958

The Queen Mother visits Green Hill station, Hawke's Bay, where a sheep-shearing demonstration was put on for her. Pictured on the left is Jimmy Puriri, one of the Puriri shearing gang, whose sister Hana Cooper (a wool classer) is shaking hands with the royal visitor.

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Megan Cook, Royal family – Royal tours, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/33159/royal-visits-woolshed-visit-1958 (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Megan Cook, published 27 January 2012.