Story: Weekends

Hutt Valley Youth Club, 1958

This film clip shows some Sunday afternoon activities organised at the Hutt Valley Youth Club, in 1958. In the 1950s there was a moral panic over delinquent teenagers, inflamed by the Mazengarb Report on Hutt Valley 'bodgies' and 'widgies.' Concerns about youth behaviour led to more efforts to provide teenagers with weekend activities.

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 79. National Film Unit, 1958

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Peter Clayworth, 'Weekends - The great Kiwi weekend', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/video/39793/hutt-valley-youth-club-1958 (accessed 19 April 2024)

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 5 Sep 2013