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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 housewife 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', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 28-Sep-11
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