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Goods came by ship to Foxton:

Transport to and from Levin before the First World War was mostly carried out by shipping goods to the Foxton wharf-and then by horsedrawn vehicle to Levin, a 23km trip that took about 3 hours.

Contains:

Foxton wharf
Mr Archie Macfarlane
Mr. E. Blacklaws
Bayliss Family
Mr W. Capper
Mr Edwards
Mordern Freighters Ltd
Messers P. H. Pollard
K. S. Sutherland

Nearly 80 years of transport:

Cappers Transport had been carrying freight around Levin for nearly 80 years-ever since the late Archie MacFarlane started providing transport with his horse and dray.

This photo shows a boiler for a Levin sawmill being transported from Levin to Otaki Gorge by Mr Archie McFarlane, about 1917.

Contains:

Cappers Transport
The MacFarlane Transport Co. Ltd
Messers W. Capper and Son (1948) Ltd
Tokomaru Transport Ltd

Difficult or unusual loads carried over the years include:

• A 93ft long load of roof trusses from Tokomaru to Lower Hutt
• A load of steel trusses 24ft wide and 30ft lonf from Smith Steel to Welligton
• A live elephant from a visiting circus from one part of Levin to another local area.
• Eight tonnes of live eels, together with the water they were swimming in to the local eel factory in Levin.
• A live mouse circus from Wellington to Levin for A. W. Allen Ltd.
• One furniture removal which included fowls, live pigs and goats, together with farm implements, besides the more conventional furniture.

Identification

Date

March 1981