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Home improvement
New Zealand men and women also spend much so-called ‘leisure time’ fixing up their homes inside and out – sewing curtains, wallpapering, painting and landscaping.

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Jock Phillips, Sports and leisure – Home and city, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/2243/home-improvement (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 15 January 2010, updated 1 September 2015.