Back Issues: Hitching posts lost to time and space
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. Around the beginning of the twentieth century horse drawn transport was common. In Te Marae o Hine/The Square, hitching rails with posts were erected for horses so that their owners could transact business in the central township. The rails were removed in the early 1900s, but a reducing number of hitching posts were used for tethering horses for several more decades. One post now remains (2023), opposite the Fitzherbert corner. It has heritage protection, Category 2 status with Heritage NZ and Category 1 status with Palmerston North City Council.
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- Object type
- Image
- Content type
- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- May 6, 2023
- Digitisation id
- 2023Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_041081
- Format
- Born Digital
- Held in
- IMCA Digital Archive
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Creation
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- Val Burr
- Place
- Palmerston North
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