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Dunedin expands, 1951

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Dunedin expands, 1951

Dunedin’s population grew by more than a quarter between the late 1940s and early 1960s. In 1951 new housing was visible in the foreground (North East Valley and Ōpoho) and in the distance, in the hill suburbs of Corstorphine and Kew.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Whites Aviation Collection

Reference: WA-29422

by Leo Lemuel White

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Malcolm McKinnon, Otago region – Population and employment since 1920, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22685/dunedin-expands-1951 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Malcolm McKinnon, published 18 August 2009, updated 1 May 2015.