Story: Building trades
Well-known photographer John Pascoe photographed this carpenter building a state house at Naenae in 1944. The government’s involvement in house construction from the late 1930s helped to employ many tradesmen after a period when there had been little house-building work due to the economic depression.
About this item
Alexander Turnbull Library, John Pascoe Collection
Reference: 1/4-001172-F
Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe
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.
