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Signalbox dairy, Featherston, 1980

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Signalbox dairy, Featherston, 1980

Joy Daley, Doreen Foss and Jim Foss are shown outside the Signalbox Dairy, where they all work, in Revans Street, Featherston, in 1980. Restrictions on Saturday shopping in 1945 led to the spread of corner dairies, which were allowed to stay open over the weekend and sell a range of goods.

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends – The great Kiwi weekend, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39788/signalbox-dairy-featherston-1980 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 30 November 2012.