Story: Overseas trade policy

Food for Britain

Watch footage from the late 1940s when a ‘Food for Britain’ campaign collected goods and donations for the mother country, which was facing food shortages following the Second World War.

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Reference: Weekly Review 349. National Film Unit, 1948

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Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, Overseas trade policy – The post-war economy, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/21980/food-for-britain (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Nixon and John Yeabsley, published 12 April 2010.