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Kōrero: Medicines and remedies

Manufacturing pills, 1940s

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Manufacturing pills, 1940s

These women are working in the Wellington plant of nutritional supplements company Nicholas Products, probably in the 1940s. The machines at left are churning out hundreds of pills which are being poured into large wooden boxes.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Gordon H. Burt Collection (PA-Group-00743)

Reference: 1/1-015549

by Gordon Burt

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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Pauline Norris rāua ko Rosemary Beresford, Medicines and remedies – Prescription medicines, 1940s to 1990s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28229/manufacturing-pills-1940s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Pauline Norris rāua ko Rosemary Beresford, i tāngia i te 22 March 2011, updated 1 April 2020.