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Loading wool

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Loading wool

Wool bales are loaded from a bullock train to a surf boat at Ākitio beach, around 1910. A ship lies at anchor in the distance. Before motorised transport and improved roads, many goods produced in the region were carried by ship.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Bennett Iorns Collection

Reference: 1/2-100441; F

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa places – Castlepoint, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/12011/loading-wool (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 2 March 2009, updated 11 June 2015.