Story: Coaches and long-distance buses

The mail coach

The mail coach

This coach, about to leave the township of Dunstan (now Clyde) for Roxburgh in the 1880s, carries both mail and passengers. A government mail contract often ensured the viability of a coach run.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Post & Telegraph Collection
Reference: 1/4-019560; F

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How to cite this page:

Jane Tolerton, 'Coaches and long-distance buses - History of coaches', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/21805/the-mail-coach (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 11 Mar 2010