Workers return to the hills

Photo by Marjorie Cook.
Photo by Marjorie Cook.
The historic 140-year-old Morven Hills Station woolshed was a popular attraction for more than 250 participants in the Tarras 125th district and school reunion this Labour Weekend.

Former and current employees of the station are pictured outside the woolshed yesterday.

Station pastoral lease owner Richard Snow and his uncle Bill Gibson talked about how the large woolshed was constructed at Breast Hill, about 5km away, and then relocated to Morven Hills.

The woolshed has a category A historic places listing.

It contains 34 stands and, one year in the late 1800s, 140,000 sheep were shorn.

The station is now one-tenth its original size, with the Snow family running about 15,000 merino stock units on about 14,000ha.

 

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