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Kōrero: Women and men

Boxing, 1912

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Boxing, 1912

Boy scout camps were part of a movement designed to provide citizenship training. In 1912 at Northcote Scout Camp (Campbells Bay, Auckland) Charlie Thompson and Royce de Luen practised boxing, their audience distracted by the photographer. Sometimes called the ‘manly art’, boxing was seen as an acceptable form of violence.

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Auckalnd Libraries, Takapuna Library Photograph Archive

Reference: N0109008

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Charlotte Macdonald, Women and men – Mothers and voters: 1880s–1920s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/29220/boxing-1912 (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Charlotte Macdonald, i tāngia i te 30 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.