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Boys with nets

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Boys with nets

On an island in the Hokitika River in 1932, these boys pose with their homemade scoop nets. They are, from left, John Cameron, Jack Harding, Neoly Saxon and Jock Tulloch. Catching whitebait offered anyone a chance to get some income.

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Reference: Auckland Weekly News, 31 August 1932, p. 38

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Simon Nathan, West Coast region – Forestry and fishing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21621/boys-with-nets (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Simon Nathan, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.