Kōrero: Weekends

Drapery at the co-operative store, Rūnanga, 1940s

Drapery at the co-operative store, Rūnanga, 1940s

This is the busy drapery section of the co-operative store in Rūnanga, on the West Coast, in the 1940s. Until 1945 Saturday was one of the busiest shopping days throughout New Zealand, with shop assistants often working long hours. From the mid-1930s unions campaigned for a five-day week for shop assistants.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Archives New Zealand: National Publicity Studios Collection
Reference: 1/2-033990-F
Photograph by Edward Percival Christensen

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:

Peter Clayworth, 'Weekends - The great Kiwi weekend', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39787/drapery-at-the-co-operative-store-runanga-1940s (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Peter Clayworth, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013