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Meat delivery in the 1870s

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Meat delivery in the 1870s

The delivery carts wait to be loaded outside G. Bull’s butcher’s shop in Cashel Street, Christchurch, in the 1870s.

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Jane Tolerton, Household services – Home deliveries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21794/meat-delivery-in-the-1870s (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 25 November 2009.