During the 1860s several imitations of the British satirical magazine Punch were started in New Zealand. This 1869 cartoon from Auckland Punch pokes fun at the so-called 'servant problem', where, due to the imbalance of males and females in the colony, women servants often had many suitors.
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Alexander Turnbull Library
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H-685-015
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