Story: Auckland places

Vegetable pickers

A group of immigrant labourers pick lettuces at a Pukekohe market garden in 2006

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Margaret McClure, Auckland places – Pukekohe and the rural south-west, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16256/vegetable-pickers (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Margaret McClure, published 2 March 2009, updated 5 August 2016.