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Women’s place in the works

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Women’s place in the works

These women are quality testing sausage casings at the Westfield Freezing Works in 1948. Until the 1970s very few women worked in freezing works, and those who did were in lower paid jobs like this one.

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Jane Tolerton, Agricultural processing industries – Meat processing from 1970s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25195/womens-place-in-the-works (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 6 April 2010.