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Municipal playgrounds

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Municipal playgrounds

One solution to the larrikin problem was municipal playgrounds, where pent-up youthful energies could be directed into more structured play, and children could be supervised by parents or caregivers. This is the playground at Dunedin’s St Clair Beach in 1955.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: Evening Star, 26 January 1955

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Ben Schrader, City children and youth – Bad behaviour, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/21967/municipal-playgrounds (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ben Schrader, published 4 February 2010.