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Story: Unpaid domestic work

Mowing the lawn

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Mowing the lawn

Shane and Carl Hollis share the task of lawn mowing – one pulling, the other pushing the handmower – in Te Atatū, Auckland, in 1970. Mowing the lawn has traditionally been a chore of New Zealand men and boys.

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Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Gardens, orchards and poultry, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23335/mowing-the-lawn (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.