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Kōrero: The New Zealanders

Women ‘help the Mother Country’

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Women ‘help the Mother Country’

Photographed in 1939, this New Zealand woman weaves clothes to be sent to people in Britain, beneath a notice encouraging help for ‘the mother country’. The war confirmed the domestic virtues of New Zealand women and their sense of loyalty to the old country.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: 61225-1/2

by A. W. Powell

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Kiwis, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/1974/women-help-the-mother-country (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.