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Mail car

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Mail car

A mail car is bogged down in mud on the Gisborne–Tolaga Bay road in the 1920s. Even with the advent of motor transport, poor roads still caused delays in the mail.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Mrs Fox Collection (PAColl-0848)

Reference: PAColl-5932-14

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Communications, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18560/mail-car (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.