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Pink Pussycat club

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Rainton Hastie, owner of the Pink Pussycat strip club in Karangahape Road, Auckland, can be heard in this 1973 radio programme. The segment begins with Hastie talking to a potential employee, and then outlining the steps to full nudity on stage.  

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

by Robin Morrison

Sound file from Radio New Zealand Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero. Any re-use of this audio is a breach of copyright. To request a copy of the recording, contact Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero (Spectrum 053 - it's a hard day's night/Reference ID30026). Photo courtesy of the Estate of Robin Morrison

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Redmer Yska, Nightclubs – Strip clubs, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/39176/pink-pussycat-club (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Redmer Yska, published 3 December 2012.