Story: Rural workers

Back from the hills

Men boil the billy for some tea after the muster in 1955, while footsore sheepdogs limp about.

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Reference: The snowline is their boundary. National Film Unit, 1955

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – Itinerant workers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/17203/back-from-the-hills (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.