Kōrero: Household services

Subsidised fares for servants

The general servant

Staff of the big house

The governess

Domestic Workers’ Union

‘New Zealand wants domestic servants’

‘Servant-galism’ cartoon

Do-it-yourself washing

First lessons in the principles of cooking

Servants’ registry office

Daughters do the dishes

Schoolgirls learn cookery

Housework elevated to home science

The up to date housewife

Importing domestic servants

Housekeeper

Meticulous Maids

Gardener in the 1860s

A. W. Buxton and Sons

Gardener on a big property

Jim’s Mowing

Meat delivery in the 1870s

Horse-drawn milk deliveries

A 1980s milkman

Putting the milk bottles out

Delivering the groceries

Shopping via the internet