Story: Voluntary welfare organisations

Soup kitchen

Soup kitchen

Soup kitchens run by a range of voluntary organisations during the 1930s depression provided hot meals for unemployed people. Here, men queue at a makeshift soup kitchen staffed by women volunteers in Wellington, around 1932.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Evening Post Collection (PAColl-0614)
Reference: EP-8645-1/2-F

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Margaret Tennant, 'Voluntary welfare organisations - Depression and the welfare state', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/29055/soup-kitchen (accessed 4 May 2024)

Story by Margaret Tennant, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 18 Sep 2018