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Snig-track

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Snig-track

To snig means to drag, and a snig-track was a path along which a load could be dragged. A team of bullocks haul a huge kauri log along this snig-track, in Northland in the 19th century.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Northwood Collection (PA-Group-00027)

Reference: 1/2-090948; F

by Arthur James Northwood

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Dianne Bardsley, Rural language – Settling the land, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18600/snig-track (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Dianne Bardsley, published 1 March 2009.