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Car wash blues

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Five young women in bright yellow and red football uniforms are grouped around a white car. They are washing the car, probably at a petrol station.

Stokes Valley football players pause for the camera during an eight-hour stint grooming cars at a BP service station on Fergusson Drive, Upper Hutt, in May 1991. The money they raised went towards uniforms, travel and other costs. ‘It's a lot more fun playing … than washing cars, but it's been well worth it’, said goalkeeper Lisa Nicholson.

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Upper Hutt City Library Heritage Collections

Reference: 1991 05 14 7

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Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters and Alida Shanks, Football – Women’s club and provincial football, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47806/car-wash-blues (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters and Alida Shanks, published 12 June 2023, reviewed and revised 7 June 2023 with assistance from Alida Shanks.