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Kōrero: Horses

Packing out

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Packing out

In the early days of land settlement, horses were used extensively for transporting people, but had just as important a role in transporting goods to relatively inaccessible places. Where wagons or carts could not travel, the packhorse was the next best option. These packhorses loaded with timber and other stores are ready to set off across a partly developed hill country farm.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 1/2-022175; F

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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Emma Meyer, Horses – Transport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19270/packing-out (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Emma Meyer, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.