
Canned foods, first produced in the nineteenth century, have been an important convenience for New Zealand cooks, despite an emphasis on home gardens and orchards for much of the twentieth century. These women shop at a Woolworths Supermarket in 1964; the first supermarket in New Zealand had opened in Auckland in 1957.
Archives New Zealand
Photograph by John Le Cren
Railways Collection
AAVK, W3493, D9431
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