War Economy
List of Illustrations
page viii
List of Illustrations
Frontispiece | |
Food for Britain: a convoy under attack, November 1940 | |
Following page 72 | |
A typical scene at mustering time on a Canterbury station | Department of Internal Affairs |
Modern dairy farming methods | |
State housing, Wellington | Tourist and Publicity Department |
Construction of the Ngahauranga Gorge road in 1938–39 | Public Works Department |
Plant assembled for levelling work at RNZAF Station, Whenuapai, January 1939 | Public Works Department |
Enlisting for the First Echelon, 2 NZEF, at Wellington | C. P. S. Boyer |
Construction work at Trentham in the early weeks of war | C. P. S. Boyer |
The first troops leave New Zealand, January 1940 | Weekly News, Auckland |
Following page 152 | |
Levelling the site at Waiouru Camp in August 1940 | Weekly News |
Carpenters at work on a dormitory at Waiouru in September 1940 | Weekly News |
Assembling engines for training aircraft | C. P. S. Boyer |
Assembling de Havilland training aircraft in a Wellington factory | Director of Publicity |
Modern small-arms were produced in considerable quantities | Government Film Studios |
Production of Bren carriers in a motor-car assembly plant | Government Film Studios page ix |
Stamping out steel helmets for the Home Guard and E.P.S. | Government Film Studios |
Trailer fire pumps for the Far East forces | Government Film Studios |
Following page 184 | |
Fertiliser loading installations, Nauru Island | New Zealand Geographer |
Processing fertiliser in New Zealand | Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd., Auckland |
The phosphate quarries at Clarendon, Otago | Department of Agriculture |
A Maori girl ready to start milking | Department of Internal Affairs |
Servicemen help with the harvest | Government Film Studios |
Services vegetable production scheme, Levin | Department of Internal Affairs |
Women at a Pukekohe factory coring cabbages for dehydration | Weekly News |
Processing linen-flax fibre, Foxton | Department of Internal Affairs |
Following page 232 | |
Arrival of United States forces, Wellington, June 1942 | G. Silk, Australian Ministry of Information |
A United States Marine makes friends with a City Milk Department horse on the Wellington wharves | C. P. S. Boyer |
Marine Corps camp at McKay's Crossing, near Paekakariki | |
Installing power at the New Zealand built camp for United States Marines at Anderson Park, Wellington | Department of Internal Affairs |
A United States Marine takes delivery of bacon | Department of Internal Affairs |
United States Joint Purchasing Board warehouses at Gracefield, Hutt Valley | Public Works Department |
Constructing a shipyard at Auckland for the United States Navy | Department of Internal Affairs |
Brides for the United States | Weekly News |
Following page 368 | |
Loading butter for export | Director of Publicity |
Telescoping lamb carcasses to make the best use of refrigerated shipping space | Department of Agriculture page x |
Unshipped wool, November 1944 | |
The Port Bowen aground near Wanganui, 1940 | Tesea Studios, Wanganui |
The barque Pamir, a valuable addition to New Zealand's depleted shipping | Department of Internal Affairs |
Signing the reciprocal aid agreement, United States - New Zealand, at Washington | United States official photograph |
Wellington Harbour Board's floating crane Hikitea unloading a tank from the Akaroa | Department of Internal Affairs |
Troops unloading New Zealand prefabricated buildings ‘somewhere in the Pacific’ | 3 NZ Division official photograph |
Following page 432 | |
The Controller of Shipbuilding (Mr James Fletcher) speaks at a launching | Department of Internal Affairs |
A coastal scow delivers a cargo of kauri and other New Zealand timber | Department of Internal Affairs |
Prefabricated keels of tow-boats ready for transport to an Auckland shipyard | Department of Internal Affairs |
Launching New Zealand built tow-boats, Auckland, August 1943 | Department of Internal Affairs |
Plugging the manpower gaps. An 83-year-old cutting metal for Army buckets | Government Film Studios |
Women in men's jobs: operating a lathe | Weekly News |
Wartime hydro-electric development, Karapiro Station | Tourist and Publicity Department |
Fund-raising campaigns for war purposes—‘Liberty Corner’, Wellington | Department of Internal Affairs |
Following page 448 | |
Free fruit in schools | Department of Internal Affairs |
A collier leaves Westport | Department of Internal Affairs |
Open-cast coal mining | Director of Publicity |
Wartime racing, Trentham, March 1943 | Department of Internal Affairs |
Food rationing. Clipping ration coupons in a restaurant | Weekly News |
Coal shortages affect the housewife: cooking over a primus | Weekly News page xi |
Women tramway employees, Wellington, 1944 | C. P. S. Boyer |
A goods train crosses a viaduct on the North Island main trunk railway | New Zealand Government Railways |
Following page 544 | |
Revival of State house construction, October 1944 | Department of Internal Affairs |
Rehabilitation. Disabled ex-soldiers making surgical boots | Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. |
War assets realisation. Surplus trucks for disposal | G. T. Gillies |
Post-war power development. The Maraetai hydro-electric power scheme | Tourist and Publicity Department |
Part of the Kaingaroa forest | New Zealand Forest Service |
Beef production, Molesworth Station | Robin Smith Photography Ltd., Christchurch |
Rail-air service between North and South Islands | New Zealand Government Railways |
Roll-on ferry, the m.v. Aramoana | New Zealand Government Railways |