The beach was used to transport goods. In this photograph of Waipiro Bay on the North Island’s East Coast, farmers have brought their sheep along the beach to be loaded into small boats and taken out to the waiting steamer.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, Frederick Ashby Hargreaves Collection (PAColl-3047)
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1/1-023296; G
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