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Mustering sheep

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A farmer and his dog muster sheep in this extract from a 1980 Country calendar episode on working dogs. The series remains popular with both rural people and urban dwellers, many of whom think of the country as being authentically New Zealand.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural media – Television, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18037/mustering-sheep (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.