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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

This collage formed the back cover of a pamphlet promoting the community centre to Naenae residents in 1948. It is designed to convey the type of activities that might be hosted by the centre.

Most state houses in the 1930s and 40s were constructed for nuclear families

A group of under-fives hold an animated meeting in Jutland Street, Naenae, c. 1945. Note the woman (possibly a mother of one or more of the children) watching the 'performance' through the window of the flat-roofed house.