Story: Economy and the environment

New Zealand as Britain’s farm (2nd of 3)

New Zealand as Britain’s farm

The August 1946 cover of the New Zealand Journal of Agriculture was on a similar theme. It depicted a London homemaker with her ration book, a bombed shell of a building behind a double-decker bus, and newspaper boy with the headline ‘More food ships from New Zealand’.

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Reference: New Zealand Journal of Agriculture. August 1946.

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Eric Pawson, 'Economy and the environment - An economy based on the environment', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/ephemera/21762/new-zealand-as-britains-farm (accessed 9 May 2024)

Story by Eric Pawson, published 11 Mar 2010