'Not On Our Street': New Urban Spaces of Interracial Intimacy in 1950s and 1960s New Zealand

Abstract

In the latter part of 1960, Mrs Fitchett, from the suburb of Henderson in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, complained to the Department of Maori Affairs (DMA) about a Maori family in her neighbourhood. She stated that she disliked the behaviour of the children when playing with rugby balls in the street and she alluded to other nuisances. The Department's district welfare officer personally investigated her complaint.