Story: Volcanic Plateau region

Fenton Street, Rotorua

Where once a resort like Rotorua was reached by train, and was mostly the preserve of the affluent, the spread of car ownership and improved roads brought increasing numbers of middle-income holidaymakers. They stayed in one of the many motels lining Fenton Street – seen here probably in the 1980s.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1986/5198/26

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Malcolm McKinnon, Volcanic Plateau region – Government, education and health, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15190/fenton-street-rotorua (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.

Comments

Kiri Jarden
17 May 2012

Kia Ora, Just looking at the cars in the picture I think that this may be image from the latter part of the 1980s perhaps?