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A Waikato farming family

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A Waikato farming family

From the late 1930s many Punjabi Sikhs, who had often acquired farming experience in India, settled in the Waikato region and took up dairy farming. This 1993 photograph shows descendants of one of these families, working in their milking shed.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Indians – 1920s–1930s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/1829/a-waikato-farming-family (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.