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Soup kitchen, Wellington, around 1932

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Soup kitchen, Wellington, around 1932

For people who lost their jobs and had few savings the early years of the 1930s were tough. Here a group of men queue with their enamel mugs for some hot soup.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-8645-1/2-F

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Brian Easton, Economic history – Inter-war years and the great depression, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/24343/soup-kitchen-wellington-around-1932 (accessed 11 June 2026).

Story by Brian Easton, published 12 April 2010.