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Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. The “Matsubara” homestead of Mr G H Aldrich was located two miles out of Bunnythorpe, on the Bunnythorpe – Ashhurst road. The homestead was built about 1888 and destroyed by a fire in the late 1910s.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2014N_Sf15_008030
Title
Shearers at work, Matsubara, Bunnythorpe
Held In
Coolstore
Original held in
Public Photograph Collection Sf 15
Date
1904~

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Place
Bunnythorpe

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barn,
industry,
labour,
rural towns and life,
shearing,
sheep,
workers,
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