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Kōrero: Teenagers and youth

Hutt Valley youth club, 1958

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Teenagers enjoy themselves at the Taita youth club, a popular Sunday meeting place for young people in the Hutt Valley. This footage of clean-cut fun was taken five years after the teenage sex scandal that erupted in Lower Hutt, leading to the 1954 Mazengarb inquiry.

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Archives New Zealand – Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Pictorial Parade 79. National Film Unit, 1958

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Carl Walrond, Teenagers and youth – Control and rebellion, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/video/27032/hutt-valley-youth-club-1958 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011, updated 1 August 2017.