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A Rangiora bakery

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A Rangiora bakery

Three bakers, one smoking a pipe, pose in their bakery in Rangiora, in rural Canterbury. The stack of loaves awaits delivery to locals. Bakers offered little variety and mainly produced standard loaves of white bread.

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Carl Walrond, Food shops – Bakers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25489/a-rangiora-bakery (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.