Charles Cole arrived in Dunedin from Victoria, Australia in 1861 into the madness of the Otago Gold Rush but he wasn’t chasing gold…well, not that way. He brought with him quite a cargo; 1 coach, 5 wagons and 54 horses. Within a week, he had his first service run; the coach leaving the Provincial Hotel …
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In 1863 – two years after Cobb & Co began its coach service in the goldfields of Otago – a Cobb & Co coach rumbled into Christchurch for the first time – from Timaru. With surveyor [Sir] Arthur Dudley Dobson finding a suitable passage from the Canterbury Plains to the West Coast the following year …
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