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Hero image for Weekly Review No. 249 - New Zealand and World War II

Weekly Review No. 249 - New Zealand and World War II

Short Film (Full Length) – 1946

A starving world looks to us for more meat and more butter. Now our factories can make household utensils instead of grenade...
– Narrator Rex Walden
We had won the war now we had to win the peace. Housing was one of our problems.
– Narrator Rex Walden
Maintaining two divisions overseas was a proud achievement for a country the size of New Zealand. In the United Nations she pulled her weight. And as Mr Churchill said, New Zealand had never made a false step.
– Narrator Rex Walden
Where men left to fight, women carried on. They shared the burden as never before. In the time of total mobilisation they helped to keep the country going.
– Narrator Rex Walden
When Britain was at war we were at war. We were bound the the triple ties of race, sentiment and trade. We mobilised our forces. They were small, for we hadn’t wanted a war. It was an unhappy way for New Zealand to celebrate 100 years as a nation.
– Narrator Rex Walden

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