Kōrero: Voluntary welfare organisations

Soup kitchen

Soup kitchen

Soup kitchens run by a range of voluntary organisations during the 1930s depression provided hot meals for unemployed people. Here, men queue at a makeshift soup kitchen staffed by women volunteers in Wellington, around 1932.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP-8645-1/2-F

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Margaret Tennant, 'Voluntary welfare organisations - Depression and the welfare state', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29055/soup-kitchen (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Margaret Tennant, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 18 Sep 2018