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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

Children’s playground

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Children’s playground

Children enjoy themselves in the rooftop playground at Auckland’s Farmers’ Trading Company store in 1929. Many department stores held Christmas events aimed at children, but Farmers was the first in New Zealand to provide them with an all-year-round attraction.

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Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – The heyday of department stores, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22204/childrens-playground (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Laurenson, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.