From the 1930s, as Māori began moving to urban centres, concerns arose among iwi Māori, mission organisations and the state about the safe accommodation of young Māori girls and boys in the country’s cities. By the 1950s, trade training institutions such as Sylvia Park training centre in Auckland and the Rehua Māori Apprentices’ Hostel in Christchurch were accommodating Māori apprentices.[i]