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Haurongo: Hutchinson, Amy Hadfield

Frank Hutchinson (left), Amy Hadfield Hutchinson (centre), and Anna Elizabeth Jerome Spencer (right)

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Frank Hutchinson, Amy Hutchinson and Bessie Spencer

Lifelong friends Amy Hutchinson (centre) and Bessie Spencer (right) collaborated on many projects, notably the establishment of women's institutes, and from 1911 Bessie lived with Amy and her husband Frank at their Hawke's Bay farm, Omatua.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Howard Barraclough Fell Collection (PAColl-5355)

Reference: PAColl-5355-01

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.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Susan Upton. 'Hutchinson, Amy Hadfield', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 1998. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1881/frank-hutchinson-amy-hutchinson-and-bessie-spencer (accessed 4 June 2026).