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Shipping news

Everyone depended on coastal shipping in colonial days, so the local papers reported arrivals and departures fully. Readers of the Taranaki Herald of 20 April 1870 could discover from the ‘shipping intelligence’ who had shipped porkers to Onehunga.

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Reference: Taranaki Herald, 20 April 1870, p. 2

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Gavin McLean, Shipping – The era of sail, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/5669/shipping-news (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Gavin McLean, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 January 2016.