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A short [Movietone News] item on sheep mustering at the Happy Valley Station along Wellington, New Zealand’s south coast shoreline. Sheep must walk along the beach on their way to the shearing shed.
0 ft. Sheep on the coastal hillsides: the Happy Valley Station. “Sheep country is steep country”
65 ft. Sheep walking around the coast “There's only one way to the shearing shed”.
72 ft. Sheep on the beach, waves approaching them “Don't fall in there, the world wants your wool”.
80 ft. A man on a horse rounding up sheep who are climbing over the rocky shore.
“Sheep are supposed to be stupid, but from Biblical times they’ve found safety on rugged mountaintops. So it’s back to Methuselah!”
89 ft. A single file of sheep on their way to the pens.
96 ft. Finish.