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Temperance Ladies’ Brass Band

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Temperance Ladies’ Brass Band

The strong influence of English nonconformism was expressed especially in the vitality of reform movements in New Zealand, such as temperance and women’s suffrage. In this photograph, taken in the 1910s, temperance women play in a brass band, another English import.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, William Archer Price Collection (PAColl-3057)

Reference: 1/2-000336-G

by William Archer Price

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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Terry Hearn, English – Religion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2013/temperance-ladies-brass-band (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Terry Hearn, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.