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School gardening

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School gardening

High school students learn to propagate plants in a gardening class in 1948, probably at Avondale College, Auckland.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-8602-59

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Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Gardens, orchards and poultry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23275/school-gardening (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.