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Having a rest

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Having a rest

Women read and relax on the steps of ‘Scotland’, one of the rest homes run by the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers. These were set up to provide a place where exhausted or ill farmers’ wives could go to recuperate.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Welfare and emergency services, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18594/having-a-rest (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.