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Kōrero: Beach culture

Health camps

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Health camps

Many New Zealanders considered their days at the beach to be a highpoint of childhood. So, the Children’s Health Camp movement located a number of their camps close to a beach, where children could enjoy the sun and the physical freedoms of sand and sea. There was a large Children’s Health Camp at Ōtaki Beach, where John Pascoe photographed these children playing in 1945.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001201; F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Beach culture – The Kiwi dream, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9130/health-camps (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.