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Story: Urban Māori

Fun in the city

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Fun in the city

A wider range of social events was one of the pleasures to be found in the city. This fashionably dressed couple dance to rock and roll music at the Ngāti Pōneke club in Wellington in the 1950s.

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Paul Meredith, Urban Māori – Urbanisation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3569/fun-in-the-city (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Meredith, published 4 March 2009, updated 17 February 2015.