Coach drivers were known as ‘whips’. New Zealand’s best-known whips were Ned Devine (who came from America via Australia, where he drove for Cobb & Co between Melbourne and Bendigo in the 1850s), Hugh Cassidy, James Strachan and Hugh Craig. According to this obituary from the Tuapeka Times, Hugh Craig was still a teenager when he started coach driving. The hard life of a ‘whip’ took a toll on his health.
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Tuapeka Times, 4 December 1907, p. 3
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