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Kōrero: Household management

Clothes washing

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Clothes washing

Mrs Clevely of Bunnythorpe in the Manawatū is shown in 1926, doing her laundry in a tub under a tree in the garden. This was the most basic of washing facilities; by this time most Pākehā households had long been using coppers, and a few may have had washing machines. It is likely that many Māori households were still using a tub.

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Palmerston North City Library

Reference: 2007N_Pi579_PEO_0393

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Megan Cook, Household management – Inside work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39690/clothes-washing (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 28 November 2012.