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Official History of New Zealand
in the Second World War 1939–45
THE
NEW ZEALAND PEOPLE
AT WAR
THE HOME FRONT
VOLUME II

NANCY M. TAYLOR

HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS BRANCH
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

V. R. WARD, GOVERNMENT PRINTER WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND—1986

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