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Kōrero: Workforce composition

Pacific workers at Crown Lynn

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Pacific workers at Crown Lynn

In the early 1960s thousands of people migrated from the Pacific Islands to fill labour shortages in the New Zealand workforce. These workers are preparing coffee mugs for glazing and firing at the Crown Lynn ceramics factory in West Auckland.

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Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira

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Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, Workforce composition – Migration and work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/22698/pacific-workers-at-crown-lynn (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Paul Callister rāua ko Robert Didham, i tāngia i te 14 April 2010.