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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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Paul Callister and Robert Didham, Workforce composition – Migration and work, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/22698/pacific-workers-at-crown-lynn (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Paul Callister and Robert Didham, published 14 April 2010.