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Different choirs: Choir Choir Pants on Fire

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Different choirs: Choir Choir Pants on Fire

Choir Choir Pants on Fire is a women's trade-union choir that performs original songs promoting social justice. Here they sing at Wellington railway station on Working Women's Day in 1999.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1999/0701

by Jo Head

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Choral music and choirs – Choirs in the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/42214/different-choirs-choir-choir-pants-on-fire (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 26 July 2013.