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Kōrero: Rural services

Country Library Service van

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Country Library Service van

Women choose books from a Country Library Service book van at Rāhotu, Taranaki, in 1972. The service, set up in 1937, sent book vans to country areas without local libraries.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, James Sutherland Collection

Reference: PA1-o-847-34-4

by James Hector Sutherland

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

Nancy Swarbrick, Rural services – Getting news and information, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/18567/country-library-service-van (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.