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Kōrero: Wairarapa places

Carterton post office

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Carterton post office

People pose outside the Carterton general store and post office, around 1870. At this time the town was still surrounded by forest.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-097063; F

by Gordon Burt

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ben Schrader, Wairarapa places – Carterton, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/12017/carterton-post-office (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 11 June 2015.