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Dried cabbage

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Dried cabbage

Women process cabbages in a Pukekohe dehydration plant during the Second World War. The dried vegetables were then packed and shipped to servicepeople in the Pacific and elsewhere.

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Margaret McClure, Auckland region – Expansion: 1941–1979, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/15904/dried-cabbage (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Margaret McClure, published 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.