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Kōrero: Weekends

The end of the Great New Zealand Weekend?

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This clip from a 1977 current affairs documentary expresses the fear that a change in shopping hours could lead to the end of the weekend as a New Zealand institution. Change came a few years later with the Shop Trading Hours Amendment Act 1980.

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends – The modern weekend, 1980 to the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/39794/the-end-of-the-great-new-zealand-weekend (accessed 1 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Peter Clayworth, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.