Story: Women and men

Lions at work

Lions at work

The Lions Club was one of several men-only service organisations that flourished in New Zealand in the years after the Second World War. This group of Masterton Lions in 1961 is unloading a piano for blind Dutch master carillonist William Creman, who was visiting family in New Zealand.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP-1961-Lions

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Charlotte Macdonald, 'Women and men - Parallel worlds: mid-20th century', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/29227/lions-at-work (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 5 May 2011, updated 1 Aug 2017