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Kōrero: Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts

Picking raspberries, 1948

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Picking raspberries, 1948

These women are picking berries from raspberry canes on a Greytown berry farm. Raspberries require a cold winter for good fruit production, and are mainly grown in the South Island, with smaller quantities in the southern North Island, around Greytown and Levin.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-8983-32

by D. Pickard

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Sandy Scarrow, Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts – Boysenberries and raspberries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/16028/picking-raspberries-1948 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Sandy Scarrow, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.