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Rural delivery letterboxes

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Rural delivery letterboxes

These rural delivery letterboxes in Taranaki prominently display the name of the newspaper to be delivered. Metropolitan newspapers have long been an important source of news for farming people.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

by Melanie Lovell-Smith

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Getting news and information, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18566/rural-delivery-letterboxes (accessed 4 June 2026).

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