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Home delivery, 1920

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Home delivery, 1920

A three-wheeled vehicle (right) outside Sibun’s Petone store is loaded with produce to be dropped off to customers. In an era before most families could afford motor vehicles, home deliveries of groceries were very important – especially for the elderly and women with young children.

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Carl Walrond, Shops – General stores, bookshops, tobacconists and jewellers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21227/home-delivery-1920 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 19 February 2026.