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Kōrero: Unpaid domestic work

Garden produce

Garden produce

Henry and Reginald Wright pose in the flourishing vegetable garden behind their house in Britomart St, Wellington, in 1892. The quarter-acre section often had a huge vegetable plot. It was expected to provide most of a family’s vegetable needs in an era when the basic New Zealand main meal of the day was described as ‘meat and two (or three) veg’.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Henry Charles Clarke Wright Collection (PAColl-5032)

Reference: 1/2-066324; G

by Henry Wright

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

Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Gardens, orchards and poultry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23333/garden-produce (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Matt Morris, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.