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Pork butcher, Christchurch

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Pork butcher, Christchurch

A pork butcher stands outside his shop in Christchurch around 1910–15. Pork butcheries were like delicatessens, and typically sold cured hams, bacon, brawn, pickles, sausages and pork pies.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)

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Carl Walrond, Food shops – Greengrocers, fruiterers and delicatessens, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/25486/pork-butcher-christchurch (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Carl Walrond, published 6 April 2010, updated 1 September 2016.