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Story: Rural workers

Land girl

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Land girl

A land girl poses for photographer John Pascoe on a dairy farm near Rotorua in 1943. During the Second World War many women worked on farms, as men were away fighting.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-000544; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Carl Walrond, Rural workers – Changes in the rural sector, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17222/land-girl (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 1 March 2009.