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Eating out (1st of 3)

Eating out

The first McDonald’s in New Zealand opened at Porirua in 1976. Ten years later the same restaurant was the site of a fundraising effort for New Zealand’s Commonwealth Games team: the Consumer Affairs Minister, Margaret Shields, helps out behind the counter.

About this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PAColl-7327)
Reference: EP/1986/3175
Photograph by Ian Mackley

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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Jock Phillips. 'Sports and leisure', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 21-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/sports-and-leisure/1/4/1