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Farm holiday

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Farm holiday

For the most part relations between city and country have been positive. Country children often boarded at city secondary schools and farm holidays were a common experience for city children until the late 20th century. This photograph shows a girl holidaying with her family on a South Island farm in the 1930s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: PA1-o-412-045-11

by John Dobrée Pascoe

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ben Schrader, City images – City versus country, 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25300/farm-holiday (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 3 March 2010.