16 Mar 2014

Spectrum for 16 March 2014

From Spectrum, 12:15 pm on 16 March 2014

Railway workers cottages dating from 1928 line Tarikaka St in the Wellington suburb of Ngaio. Susan Atkins lived there for 18 years from the mid-1980s. Susan and her son Arnaru recall the tightly knit community of railway workers and their successful fight to save their homes when the Railways Department tried to sell them off.

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