[Flora MacKenzie interview]

Rights Information
Year
1976
Reference
325793
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1976
Reference
325793
Media type
Audio
Categories
Interviews (Sound recordings)
Sound recordings
Duration
00:13:57
Credits
RNZ Collection
HAYS, Ray, Interviewer
MacKenzie, Flora, 1902-1982, Interviewee

74 year old Auckland madam Flora MacKenzie talks to Ray Hays about owning a brothel and about prostitution. She talks about how she got started in the business.

A young woman who works for Flora gives her view of her employer.

Flora discusses legalisation of prostitution. She is outraged when Ray Hays asks her if she ever worked as a prostitute herself. She says she still has religious beliefs and gives her views on modern sexuality and abortion, which she thinks should be legalised.

She has been convicted five times on charges of keeping a brothel and comments on her most recent court appearance.