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Kōrero: Gangs

Hell's Angels, New Plymouth, 1966

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Hell's Angels, New Plymouth, 1966

Members of the Auckland chapter of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang pose with a swastika flag outside the New Plymouth police station in 1966. The local newspaper published this photograph along with others under the headline, 'This is here'. The gang taunted police, and one member was arrested. He was armed with a whip which he said was 'for hitting nosey cops with'.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-Box 45-Hells Angels

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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Greg Newbold rāua ko Rāwiri Taonui, Gangs – Motorcycle and white supremacist gangs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28241/hells-angels-new-plymouth-1966 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Greg Newbold rāua ko Rāwiri Taonui, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, reviewed and revised 2 October 2018 me te āwhina o Jarrod Gilbert, updated 1 April 2020.