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Kōrero: Rural services

Mail car

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Mail car

A mail car is bogged down in mud on the Gisborne–Tolaga Bay road in the 1920s. Even with the advent of motor transport, poor roads still caused delays in the mail.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Mrs Fox Collection (PAColl-0848)

Reference: PAColl-5932-14

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 – Communications, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18560/mail-car (accessed 4 June 2026).

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