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Cabbages for the war

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Watch women processing cabbages in the 1940s in a Pukekohe plant. The cabbages were sent to Allied forces fighting the Japanese in the Pacific during the Second World War.

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Reference: Weekly Review 181. National Film Unit, 1945

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – History of market gardening, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/20003/cabbages-for-the-war (accessed 27 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.