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Courses: Māori trades training, Auckland Technical Institute, 1970

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Courses: Māori trades training, Auckland Technical Institute, 1970

After the Second World War trade training for Māori students was one special focus for technical high schools and polytechnics. In 1959 a carpentry trade-training scheme for young rural Māori men started at Seddon Memorial Technical College in Auckland. The scheme was later extended to other technical institutions and the range of subjects offered expanded. These students are attending a technical drawing class as part of a pre-apprenticeship carpentry scheme at the Auckland Technical Institute (now the Auckland University of Technology) in 1970.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: AAQT 6401/A93,947

by Gregory Riethmaier

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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Kerryn Pollock, Tertiary education – Polytechnics before 1990, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/34420/courses-maori-trades-training-auckland-technical-institute-1970 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Kerryn Pollock, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.