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Occupations: carpenters

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Occupations: carpenters

These carpenters are building flats for munitions workers at Woburn, Lower Hutt, during the Second World War. About a quarter of men at that time were skilled manual workers such as these.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)

Reference: 1/4-001133-F

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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Jock Phillips, Class – A middle-class society? – material differences, 1890 to 1970, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/29729/occupations-carpenters (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 15 April 2011.