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The Stinky
'The Stinky' was a mobile home for agricultural workers. Similar to a caravan, it provided sleeping and minimal cooking quarters for a teamster. It was built in the 1800s and used here when the property was 30,000 acres and the ploughman would go a distance of ten or more miles with his team of horses. He would camp near a stream, for himself and the horses, and get on with the agricultural work for a week or more. Sometimes he took his wife. After 1907 when most of the property was sold, we think it would have been used for extra accommodation for workers. The most interesting thing about this stinky is that one of the cast iron front wheels was broken at some stage. A replacement wheel was supplied by J Thorne who cast iron wheels at his foundry in Hororata. |
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