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Lions Club project

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Lions Club project

In 2008 members of the Waiareka Valley Lions club organised the restoration of a monument to the Corriedale sheep breed, at the township of Corriedale in North Otago. Club president Bob Kingan (left) and members Hugh Matheson and Allan Thompson pose with a Corriedale ewe beside the monument, which they consider an important piece of rural history.

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Jock Phillips, Rural recreation – Rise and fall of rural recreation, 1950–2000, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17694/lions-club-project (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.