The wharves of Wanganui : how maritime commerce built a city / by Bruce Attwell.
Material type: TextPublication details: Wanganui [New Zealand] : Hilltop Publishing, 2006.Description: 154 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 30 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780473120757 (pbk.) :
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Heritage & Archives | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections | Reference - not for loan | 387.1 ATT | Reference Only | T00451088 | |||
Heritage & Archives | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections | Reference - not for loan | 387.1 ATT | Reference Only | T00478084 | |||
Heritage & Archives | Alexander Library | Te Rerenga Mai o Te Kauru Heritage Collections | Reference - not for loan | 387.1 ATT | Reference Only | T00852560 | |||
Non-Fiction | Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction | 387.1 ATT | 1 | Available | T00451078 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-2) and indexes.
The Wharves of Wanganui: How Maritime Commerce Built a City ~ early Wanganui, like most other settlements in mid-nineteenth century New Zealand, was greatly dependent upon shipping for transport and supply. Land transport of goods and mails was virtually confined to what a man or a horse might carry. Although there were cases where bullock drays made their plodding way along the beaches, their loads were generally families and possessions of the migrants heading for the promised lands of Knowsley or Petre as the early village was differently known. The sea trade with coastal settlements was carried in small cutters, schooners and brigs. Outward cargoes were generally of processed pork, potatoes, stock food and livestock. In return they brought from Nelson and Marlborough the timber to build Wanganui. From Wellington and the other ports came the imports so necessary for the trade and livelihood of shopkeepers and settlers. Virtually everything required to lift settlement beyond the subsistence level came over the numerous jetties protruding from the banks of the river. By shipping, the town grew and prospered through the seventies.
Bruce Attwell is a Whanganui author. T00852560 donated by Huia Kirk.