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Kōrero: Rural recreation

Boys playing

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Boys playing

Like these boys having a mock ‘cockfight’ at Te Aroha around 1906, country children often made their own fun, exploring, hunting or playing games.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, R. McIndoe Collection

Reference: 1/4-023867; G

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Rural recreation – Making their own fun, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/17674/boys-playing (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.