This image was not published in the Manawatu Evening Standard, taken on 03 July, 1963. [Three men admire and study a fleece. It is on a table with two other fleeces.]

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Date:          1963-07-03T00:00:00+00:00

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 22 June 1961 "The judging for the Massey Agricultural College "fleece of the year" took place in the college wool room yesterday and today. The 58 entries included fleec...

Creator:      Manawatu Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          June 22, 1961

This image was taken for a story that ran in The Manawatu Evening Standard on 7 July, 1959. "These men are inspecting the New Zealand champion Merino fleece at the wool block at Massey College, where the woolgrowers conference opened this morning....

Creator:      Manawatū Evening Standard
Place:          Massey University, Palmerston North
Date:          1959-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

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...

Creator:      A S Aldrich
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904

English Leicester sheep on A S Aldrich’s farm “Matsubara”, Bunnythorpe, north of Palmerston North. These sheep had long, coarse, lustrous wool, a pioneer breed well suited to the wetter conditions and rough grazing on North Island hill country. L...

Creator:      A S Aldrich
Place:          Manawatu
Date:          circa 1908

Wool press in the woolshed of "Matusbara", A S Aldrich's farm near 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 ...

Creator:      A S Aldrich
Place:          Palmerston North
Date:          circa 1904