Story: Tea, coffee and soft drinks

Tea break, 1955

Delegates at a Māori Women's Welfare League conference in 1955 take a tea break. Tea is a refreshing, thirst-quenching drink and is often served at conferences.

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Kerryn Pollock, Tea, coffee and soft drinks – Tea and coffee, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/40377/tea-break-1955 (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 30 November 2012.