page_title: Mendip Hills Station
hierarchical_section_title: Mendip Hills Station
caption_attribution_description: English: A group of five unidentified men with their farm dogs, around a camp fire. The man second from left, with a moustache and dark coloured hat, is holding a wild piglet on his lap. They are on a hillside covered with tussock grass. Photograph taken at the Mendip Hills sheep farm (owned by Andrew William Rutherford) by Albert Percy Godber in 1917.
context_page_description: Mendip Hills Station is a sheep, cattle, and deer rearing area near Parnassus in North Canterbury, New Zealand. A 2016 earthquake badly damaged buildings in the area including a historic homestead. The National Library of New Zealand has several photos of the area in its collection. The station dates to 1861. Audrey Steele published a book in 1974 about her life at the station after she became a bride in 1924.
context_section_description: Mendip Hills Station is a sheep, cattle, and deer rearing area near Parnassus in North Canterbury, New Zealand. A 2016 earthquake badly damaged buildings in the area including a historic homestead. The National Library of New Zealand has several photos of the area in its collection. The station dates to 1861. Audrey Steele published a book in 1974 about her life at the station after she became a bride in 1924.
caption: Sheep farmers and their dogs around a campfire in Mendip Hills
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