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Kōrero: Women and men

Lions at work

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Lions at work

The Lions Club was one of several men-only service organisations that flourished in New Zealand in the years after the Second World War. This group of Masterton Lions in 1961 is unloading a piano for blind Dutch master carillonist William Creman, who was visiting family in New Zealand.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-1961-Lions

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

Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Parallel worlds: mid-20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29227/lions-at-work (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.