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Tea and coffee break - food in New Zealand
Tea was a 'great mainstay' of 'thirsty colonial New Zealand', the food historian Tony Simpson claims.
Statistics Department's staff picnic, 1938

Logging train with picnic party, 1911
New Year's picnickers perch precariously atop logging wagons near the King Country settlement of Manunui.
Viscount Jellicoe picnicking
Governors-General traditionally went to Northland in summer for the fishing and the sunshine. Here we see Governor-General Viscount Jellicoe (1920–24) picnicking at Ninety Mile Beach in 1924
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