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Loading beef, Wellington wharves, 1945

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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

by John Dobrée Pascoe

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Brian Easton, Economy – External trade, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3722/loading-beef-wellington-wharves-1945 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Brian Easton, published 3 March 2009, updated 1 September 2016.