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Shearers at work on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythope, 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
2007N_Sf14_RTL_0892
Title
Shearers at "Matsubara" woolshed, Bunnythorpe
Relation
Public Photograph Collection Sf 14
Held In
Coolstore

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
circa 1904

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

Tags
agriculture,
farming,
fleece,
photographs,
rural towns and life,
shearing,
sheep,
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