Story: Rural recreation

Boys playing

Boys playing

Like these boys having a mock ‘cockfight’ at Te Aroha around 1906, country children often made their own fun, exploring, hunting or playing games.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, R. McIndoe Collection
Reference: 1/4-023867; G

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.

All images & media in this story

How to cite this page:

Jock Phillips, 'Rural recreation - Making their own fun', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/17674/boys-playing (accessed 19 March 2024)

Story by Jock Phillips, published 24 Nov 2008