Kōrero: Farm buildings
The cookhouse at Morven Hills Station in Central Otago was built in the early 1870s – about 130 years before artist Peter Brown painted it. At shearing time over 100 men would have been fed here. One of the chimneys was for a bread oven; the other was for general cooking.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
by Peter Brown
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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Robert Peden, Farm buildings – Farm housing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/18512/morven-hills-cookhouse (accessed 17 February 2026).
He kōrero nā Robert Peden, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.