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Hauhungaroa Workingmen's Club

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Hauhungaroa Workingmen's Club

These men are standing in the doorway of their local workingmen's club in Hauhungaroa, just west of Lake Taupō, in the 1950s. Such clubs provided a place where predominantly manual workers, such as bushmen, farm labourers or fencers, could drink, yarn and enjoy a game of pool or darts.

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Jock Phillips, Class – A middle-class society? – class consciousness, 1890 to 1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29737/hauhungaroa-workingmens-club (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 15 April 2011.