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Kōrero: Transport – overview

Bullock team

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Bullock team

Before motor transport, bullock teams were used to haul heavy loads. Bullocks were slow but very powerful, and did not require special feeding. Here, two bullock teams yoked together in a long train pull two loaded wagons.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)

Reference: 1/1-023279-G

by Frederick Ashby Hargreaves

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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James Watson, Transport – overview – Before motor transport, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/24979/bullock-team (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā James Watson, i tāngia i te 10 June 2013.