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Story: Food and beverage manufacturing

Bread making

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Bread making

Bakers mix flour in large vats at a New Zealand bakery in 1939, before water was added and the dough mixed.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Making New Zealand Centennial Collection (PAColl-3060)

Reference: MNZ-1627

by Green & Hahn

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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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Bread, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22976/bread-making (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.