Kōrero: City children and youth
In 1986, 17-year old Marama Mateparae worked two four-hour shifts a week at the fast-food restaurant McDonald’s. She used her wages to buy clothes and pay for entertainment and holidays. Marama liked the work and the variety of people: ‘It’s never boring,’ she said.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)
Reference: EP/1986/5496/14
by Phil Reid
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.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
Ben Schrader, City children and youth – Working children, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/21950/serving-burgers (accessed 15 February 2026).
He kōrero nā Ben Schrader, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.