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A horse-drawn coach and two travellers on horseback are ferried across the Buller River on a punt in the 1880s. Punts – rafts pulled back and forth across rivers by cables – were commonplace in 19th-century New Zealand.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Tyree Studio Collection (PAColl-3064)
Reference: 10x8-0619-G
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