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Having a rest

Women read and relax on the steps of ‘Scotland’, one of the rest homes run by the Women’s Division of Federated Farmers. These were set up to provide a place where exhausted or ill farmers’ wives could go to recuperate.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga
Reference: AAQT 6401/A49,965

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Nancy Swarbrick. 'Rural services', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 27-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/rural-services/8/4