Story: Transport of animals

More links and websites

• NZRailways/Tranzrail/Toll – history and photos

  Information about the history of the Cook Strait ferries.

• Shipping requirements for sea transport of livestock

  The manual for MAF’s requirements and guidelines for the export of livestock.

• The steam railways

  Information about the contribution of New Zealand’s railways to the country’s economic development.

• Transport: New Zealand history

  This page on the New Zealand History website links to material about the history of transport in New Zealand.

More suggestions and sources

• Amodeo, Colin. The summer ships: being an account of the first six ships sent out from England by the Canterbury Association in 1850–1851. Christchurch: Caxton Press, 2001.
• Bromby, Robin. Rails that built a nation: an encyclopedia of New Zealand railways. Wellington: Grantham House, 2003.
• Churchman, Geoffrey B., and Tony Hurst. The railways of New Zealand: a journey through history. Wellington: Transpress New Zealand, 2001.
• Osborne, Sonny. Droving dogs and sheep. Feilding: S. Osborne, 1987.
• Wright, Matthew. Trucks across New Zealand. Auckland: Whitcoulls, 2006.