Well-known photographer John Pascoe photographed this carpenter building a state house at Naenae in 1944. The government’s involvement in house construction from the late 1930s helped to employ many tradesmen after a period when there had been little house-building work due to the economic depression.
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Alexander Turnbull Library, John Dobrée Pascoe Collection (PAColl-0783)
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Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe
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