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Kōrero: Italians

Fish shop owners, Wellington

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Fish shop owners, Wellington

As they mastered the language, some Italian immigrants applied their acumen and spirit of enterprise to small businesses. For those from fishing families, it was a natural move to open up fish shops or to sell fish and chips. Antonio Cuccurullo and Camillo Amitrano were photographed in 1991 at their fish shop in Wellington.

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

Reference: EP/1990/1921-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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Tessa Copland, Italians – 1940s–present day, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/455/fish-shop-owners-wellington (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Tessa Copland, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 July 2024.