Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Shanty Town
Shanty Town
On Thursday the class went to Shantytown to learn about the valley in the old days. We learnt lots of cool stuff about the old days.
First we arrived and they told us what to do in an emergency then we got dressed in olden day shirts and waistcoats with a cap. After that we had morning tea.
After morning tea we learnt that the Maori came over to the west coast for pounamu using the Noti raureka (Browning's Pass) and the Europeans came for gold. We learnt that the gold miners needed food so farmers came and cleared the trees for land. That was the start of farming on the west coast. Since there was lots of flax on the west coast flax mills were made to make rope.
Dairy farmers drop off milk to the butter factories and most of that butter was used for the miners. They also supplied milk to the dairy factory that opened in 1901.
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Kia ora Rocco I really enjoyed reading about your explanation about the olden days.
ReplyDeleteMy feed forward next time you tell us what your favourite part was. thanks:)