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Kōrero: Street life

Street life in Auckland

In 1923 Auckland’s Weekly News captured different aspects of the city’s street life in a photo montage. Scenes include a bootblack at work (15), a disabled busker (5), a newspaper seller (1), a policeman directing traffic (6) and a milkman (4).

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: Auckland Weekly News, 6 December 1923

Permission of the New Zealand Herald must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Ben Schrader, Street life – Street trade and people, 1915–2008, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/zoomify/20690/street-life-in-auckland (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.