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Agricultural show display

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Agricultural show display

This display by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company at a 1910 agricultural show includes major items like the Sandow wool press (right), cream separators and butter churns – as well as smaller products like seeds, animal health supplies and fencing wire.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Nelson Jones Collection (PAColl-3051)

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Hugh Stringleman, Stock and station agencies – Origins, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17380/agricultural-show-display (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Stringleman, published 1 March 2009.