Story: Freight and warehousing

Unloading paper

Railway staff and an overhead traverser unload rolls of paper in the new wool store at Wellington railway station’s goods yard, in 1967.

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Matthew Wright and Megan Cook, Freight and warehousing – Regulation and expansion: 1930s–1980s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23459/unloading-paper (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matthew Wright and Megan Cook, published 4 March 2010.