Kōrero: Economy

Loading beef, Wellington wharves, 1945

Loading beef, Wellington wharves, 1945

Until the 1960s most New Zealand exports were bulk agricultural produce such as these sacks of beef being loaded onto the New Zealand Shipping Company boat, the Rangitiki, in 1945. The photographer, John Pascoe, was a notable documentary photographer who recorded New Zealand’s efforts at home during the Second World War.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: 1/4-001870; F
Photograph by John Dobrée Pascoe

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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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Brian Easton, 'Economy - External trade', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/3722/loading-beef-wellington-wharves-1945 (accessed 29 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Brian Easton, updated 1 Sep 2016