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Transporting mail

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Transporting mail

Men inspect damage to a cart carrying mail to Slope Point, Southland, in 1910. The combination of horse-drawn vehicles and bad roads made transporting mail between settlements a slow and difficult business.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, George Bull Collection

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Communications, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18559/transporting-mail (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.