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Kōrero: Department stores and shopping malls

War-time queue for rationed goods

War-time queue for rationed goods

People in this crowd queuing outside Miller’s in Christchurch in 1944 have heard that the department store has a shipment of towels. New linen goods were almost impossible to buy during the war. When they were available they cost not only money but ration coupons.

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Canterbury Museum, Miller Collection

Reference: 1997.321.1

Permission of Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Helen Laurenson, Department stores and shopping malls – Decline and survival, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22207/war-time-queue-for-rationed-goods (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Helen Laurenson, i tāngia i te 4 February 2010.