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Saddler, Featherston

Saddler, Featherston

Because horse power was the main mode of transport in rural areas until the First World War, country towns provided blacksmiths for shoeing the horses, wheelwrights and carriage-makers, and saddlers and harness-makers.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: 1/2-061756; F

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Jock Phillips. 'Country towns', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/country-towns/2/5