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<em>New Zealand Woman's Weekly</em>

The New Zealand Woman's Weeklywas founded in 1932 with the aim of becoming 'a national family journal in the truest and fullest sense of the word'. By 2020 it was the longest-running such magazine in the country. In this 1962 photograph, Vic Staines (production), Jean Wishart (editor), Joy Lee (assistant editor) and Michael Wilson (photographer) discuss the design of the 30th-anniversary issue. 

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Ben Schrader, Magazines and periodicals – Popular magazines, 1920 to 1939, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/44380/new-zealand-womans-weekly (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 6 March 2014, updated 1 April 2020.