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Story: Beach culture

Family outing, 1910

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Family outing, 1910

Some Māori have long seen the beach as a place of recreation. Here, Willy Nepe and family, of the Ngāti Kahungunu tribe, from Waipawa enjoy a day on the Wairarapa coast.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Steffano Webb Collection (PAColl-3061)

Reference: 1/2-049687; G

by Steffano Francis Webb

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Jock Phillips, Beach culture – Beach recreation, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/9109/family-outing-1910 (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 2 March 2009.