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Packing cherries

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Packing cherries

Chilean worker Ursula Pineda sorts cherries with a smile on Christmas Eve at Rob’s Rural Market Earnscleugh packhouse, in Central Otago. Large numbers of casual labourers are needed at harvest time, and overseas backpackers often do the work.

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Marie Dawkins, Stone fruit and the summerfruit industry – Commercial production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18789/packing-cherries (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Marie Dawkins, published 1 March 2009.