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Bessie Spencer

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Bessie Spencer

Bessie Spencer, the founder of the New Zealand Country Women’s Institute, demonstrates the art of spinning at a women’s group meeting about 1930.

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

Reference: EP-0237-1/2-G

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Willie Smith and Steven Kelly, Farmer and grower organisations – Rural women, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/18682/bessie-spencer (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Willie Smith and Steven Kelly, published 1 March 2009.