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Kōrero: Voluntary welfare organisations

Oddfellows' hall

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Oddfellows' hall

Members of mutual aid societies such as the Oddfellows were usually working men, who built halls in which to hold their meetings. In Martinborough in 1905, the front of the Oddfellows' hall was occupied by a jeweller's shop.

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Reference: 02-205/21

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Margaret Tennant, Voluntary welfare organisations – 19th-century charity, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29042/oddfellows-hall (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret Tennant, i tāngia i te 24 February 2011.