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  • Clark, Alison. ‘A godly rhythm: keeping the sabbath in Otago, 1870–1890.’ In Building God’s own country: historical essays on religions in New Zealand, edited by John Stenhouse and Jane Thomson, 46–59. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2004.

  • Hince, Kevin, and others. Opening hours: history of the Wellington Shop Employees Union. Wellington: Central Distribution Workers Union; Industrial Relations Centre, Victoria University, 1990.

  • Jones, Lloyd, and Bruce Foster. Last Saturday. Wellington: Victoria University Press for the National Library of New Zealand, 1994.

  • Martin, John E. Holding the balance: a history of New Zealand’s Department of Labour, 1891–1995. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 1996.

  • Rybczynski, Witold. Waiting for the weekend. New York: Viking Penguin, 1991.

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/221986/sources (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 20 May 2013.