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Lions at work

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Lions at work

The Lions Club was one of several men-only service organisations that flourished in New Zealand in the years after the Second World War. This group of Masterton Lions in 1961 is unloading a piano for blind Dutch master carillonist William Creman, who was visiting family in New Zealand.

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

Reference: EP-1961-Lions

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Parallel worlds: mid-20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29227/lions-at-work (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Charlotte Macdonald, published 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.