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Kōrero: Freight and warehousing

Beer carts

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Beer carts
Dunedin-based Speight’s, like many other brewers, had its own fleet of horses, drays and lorries (four-wheeled carts). The horses worked a full day, were stabled in town overnight, and were taken to graze on Pine Hill on weekends. Each horse knew its own route; when an employee hired one to pull his wedding carriage, it embarrassed him by stopping at every pub along the way.

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Speight's Heritage Centre

by Guy Clayton Morris

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Matthew Wright rāua ko Megan Cook, Freight and warehousing – Road and rail to the early 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23453/beer-carts (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Matthew Wright rāua ko Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.