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Story: Apples and pears

Apple poster

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Apple poster

This 1930s poster exhorts people to buy New Zealand apples. A rosy-cheeked young woman, wearing a tiki, displays a New Zealand flag holding a bounty of red and green apples.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-D-FRUIT-1930s-01

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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John Palmer, Apples and pears – Pipfruit in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/17240/apple-poster (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by John Palmer, published 1 March 2009.