Story: Rural services

Transporting wool (1st of 2)

Transporting wool

A carter perches atop a pile of wool bales as he drives his team of horses along the road at Waipiro Bay, near Gisborne, about 1904. Before motorised transport, farm produce was usually taken to market by horse and cart.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)
Reference: 1/1-002640; G
Photograph by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves

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Nancy Swarbrick, 'Rural services - Roads', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/18545/transporting-wool (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 24 Nov 2008