Mark Fagan and his Labour colleagues believed that nuclear family life was best lived in suburban housing estates like this one at Naenae, Lower Hutt, photographed in the late 1940s.
Alexander Turnbull Library Reference: F 29952 1/2 Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.
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'Naenae state housing project', URL: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/naenae-state-housing-project, (Ministry for Culture and Heritage), updated 21-Jul-2014
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