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Student life: St Margaret's residential college, University of Otago

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Student life: St Margaret's residential college, University of Otago

All universities provided residential colleges for students who came from out of town. These students have gathered for breakfast in the dining hall of St Margaret’s residential college – a women's college at the University of Otago – in 1949.

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Hocken Collections, University of Otago

Reference: S10-133d

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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Universities before 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34413/student-life-st-margarets-residential-college-university-of-otago (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 29 May 2012.