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Kōrero: Inner-city living

Flatting

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Flatting

Lybia Huata, Allies Ormsby and Aroha Te Aho – all from Wairoa – listen to records in their central Wellington flat in 1961. In the 1960s many young people gave up the institutional confines of hostel life for the freedoms of flatting (shared-house accommodation). Initially, men and women did not flat together, but in the 1970s mixed flatting became common.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Ashton Collection (PA-Group-00381)

Reference: JA-6140-04

by John Ashton

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

Philip Morrison rāua ko Ben Schrader, Inner-city living – Early inner-city living and its decline, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23739/flatting (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Philip Morrison rāua ko Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 6 April 2010.