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Country Women’s Institute conference, 1976

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Country Women’s Institute conference, 1976

Banners line the Wellington Town Hall for a three-day conference of the Dominion Federation of Country Women’s Institutes in 1976. The women’s outfits would also have been typical of urban elderly women of that time – no doubt they had dressed up in their town clothes for the occasion.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1976/2533/5

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Bronwyn Labrum, Rural clothing – Rural fashion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18534/country-womens-institute-conference-1976 (accessed 5 June 2026).

Story by Bronwyn Labrum, published 1 March 2009.