Although it was quite a common means of transport in the early days of the Dominion, it is quite an uncommon occurrence to see a team of bullocks at work at the present time. But only four miles out from Wanganui there is a team of eight beasts engaged for eight to ten hours a day in hauling white pine logs from a plantation to the main road over low-lying land. These logs are carted to Eastown by lorry and then railed to Palmerston North to be made into butter boxes (says an exchange). Recently the team spent all afternoon in hauling a log from the plantation to the road, and the lorry driver estimated that, roughly, 1600 ft of timber was contained in the one log.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5465, 23 August 1929, Page 4
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