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Kōrero: Country towns

Saddler, Featherston

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Saddler, Featherston

Because horse power was the main mode of transport in rural areas until the First World War, country towns provided blacksmiths for shoeing the horses, wheelwrights and carriage-makers, and saddlers and harness-makers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: 1/2-061756; F

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Jock Phillips, Country towns – Towns and the farm economy, 1870–1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/19403/saddler-featherston (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.