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Canning vegetables

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Canning vegetables

Workers at a factory fill tins with mixed vegetables by hand in 1954. Canning of vegetables declined from the 1960s as more households purchased deep freezers. Mixed vegetables sold frozen in plastic bags became more popular.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, National Publicity Studios Collection

Reference: 1/2-034458; F/A35,474

by E. Woollett

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Sarah Wilcox, Food and beverage manufacturing – Canning, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22985/canning-vegetables (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sarah Wilcox, published 3 March 2010.