Freight is prominent in this 1840s engraving of Wellington’s Tinakori Road. On the left a Māori family carry firewood, while a loaded dray is pulled by four bullocks. The central figure is probably the ‘bullockie’, or driver of the dray.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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Hand-coloured engraving by Samuel Charles Brees
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