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Horse-drawn milk deliveries

Horse-drawn milk deliveries

A horse drags a milk float up the top of Wellington’s Abel Smith St in 1951. There were some horses still on the milk run in Wellington in the 1960s, but most milkmen had trucks by the 1950s and 1960s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-5469-025

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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Jane Tolerton, Household services – Home deliveries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21795/horse-drawn-milk-deliveries (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 25 November 2009.

Comments

Rick Burgess
29 November 2017
I remember a white horse like this in the early fifties. His name was Rajah. We use to visit him at the Milk Department stables in Tory Street