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Kōrero: Parenting

Children and parents at Playcentre, 1975

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Children and parents at Playcentre, 1975

Playcentre is an organisation run by parents which offers preschool children play-based learning at centres throughout the country. Parents accompany their children to most sessions and are expected to do administrative and planning work as well. These children and parents are hard at work in the sandpit at Māoribank Playcentre in Upper Hutt, in 1975.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAQT 6421/B7922

by R. Anderson

Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Lesley Patterson, Parenting – Parenting advice and organisations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26347/children-and-parents-at-playcentre-1975 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Lesley Patterson, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011.