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Courses: trainee butchers, Manukau Technical Institute, 1976

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Courses: trainee butchers, Manukau Technical Institute, 1976

The Manukau Technical Institute (which later became the Manukau Institute of Technology) was the first purpose-built technical institute – it was not carved off a technical high school like the others. It opened in 1970. A meat-processing school was established in the early 1970s. These trainee butchers are serving customers at the institute’s retail shop in 1976.

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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Polytechnics before 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/34422/courses-trainee-butchers-manukau-technical-institute-1976 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Kerryn Pollock, published 29 May 2012.