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Kōrero: Magazines and periodicals

Two sides to a question

During the 1860s several imitations of the British satirical magazine Punchwere started in New Zealand. This 1869 cartoon from Auckland Punch pokes fun at the so-called 'servant problem', where, due to the imbalance of males and females in the colony, women servants often had many suitors. 

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: H-685-015

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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Ben Schrader, Magazines and periodicals – Early ventures, 1840 to 1890, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/44368/two-sides-to-a-question (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 6 March 2014, updated 1 April 2020.