Story: Childhood

Children skateboarding, 1995

From the 1970s skateboards were a popular way for children to get around. Here siblings Sene (9), Sami (4) and Toetu Elekana (7) whizz down Astrolabe Street in Porirua in 1995.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1995/4926/35

by Phil Reid

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.

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How to cite this page

Kerryn Pollock, Childhood – Friendship, sport and youth groups, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26274/children-skateboarding-1995 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 22 March 2011.

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