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Kōrero: Tea, coffee and soft drinks

Coffee advertisement, early 1900s

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Coffee advertisement, early 1900s

Although coffee drinking did not really take off in New Zealand until the 1940s, coffee was manufactured locally and readily available well before then. D. Stephenson & Co was a coffee and spice firm established in Auckland in 1864.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-C-FOOD-1900s-06

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Kerryn Pollock, Tea, coffee and soft drinks – Tea and coffee, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/40379/coffee-advertisement-early-1900s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.