Hitching Post

Once a ubiquitous sight on town streets, hitching posts, like this wooden one on Grey Street, Hawera, are now becoming relatively rare. This surviving hitching post has slots cut at right angles in the top and horizontal holes bored through the post to hold horse reins. It is of unknown age but at least early 20th Century.

The wooden building behind was built c1914 as offices for the timber merchant George Syme.

Documents

Hitching Post, Grey Street, Hawera Town Centre, Heritage Inventory, 1998