The Rimutaka Road
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The Rimutaka Road
The large-scale immigration of the 1870s was part of Premier Julius Vogel’s scheme to revive the economy. He borrowed money from overseas and spent it on recruiting immigrants and constructing roads and railways. In the early 1870s people could only cross from Wellington to the Wairarapa by horse or bullock over the Rimutaka Road. In 1878 a rail connection was opened.
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Alexander Turnbull Library , James Bragge Collection
Reference: PA7-30-03
Photograph by James Bragge
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