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Hairdressing apprentice

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Hairdressing apprentice

Monique Nugent (left), an instructor at the training salon at Manukau Technical Institute, helps a hairdressing apprentice with the finer points of curlers in 1976. Hairdressing was by far the most popular apprenticeship for women.

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Jeremy Baker, Apprenticeships and trade training – Apprenticeship until 1945, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23779/hairdressing-apprentice (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jeremy Baker, published 30 November 2009, updated 1 May 2022.