Kōrero: Youth offenders

Occupational training at Arohata Borstal, 1976

Occupational training at Arohata Borstal, 1976

Borstals were correctional institutions for young people. Occupational training was an important element of the institutional regime. This young woman inmate and her teacher are shown at Arohata Borstal in Tawa, Wellington, during a typing class in 1976.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP?Crime/Arohata

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Gabrielle Maxwell, 'Youth offenders - Treatment of young offenders, 1840 to 1980s', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/26596/occupational-training-at-arohata-borstal-1976 (accessed 28 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Gabrielle Maxwell, i tāngia i te 5 May 2011, updated 1 Aug 2017