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Kōrero: Rural services

Transporting wool

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Transporting wool

A carter perches atop a pile of wool bales as he drives his team of horses along the road at Waipiro Bay, near Gisborne, about 1904. Before motorised transport, farm produce was usually taken to market by horse and cart.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)

Reference: 1/1-002640; G

by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Roads, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18545/transporting-wool (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.