Wednesday, August 13, 2014

John Dobree Pascoe

 Japanese prisoners of war loading sand into a truck, Wairarapa, 1943
  
 Lunch break for a group of women workers from a 
World War 2 ammunition factory in Hamilton, 13 January 1944
  
 Maori children riding the elephant at Wellington Zoo, ca. 1943
  
 Maori group with poi, performing at the unveiling of the Tasman Memorial at Tarakohe during the Tasman tercentennial celebrations, 18 December 1942
  
 Members of the Ngati-Poneke club performing an action song 
for the Maori Battalion on their return to New Zealand in 1945
  
 Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt talking to Janet Fraser, wife of the New Zealand Prime Minister, after arriving at an Auckland airfield, 27 August 1943
  
 Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt watching members of 
the Women's Land Service draft sheep, 1943
  
 Polish refugee children enroute to camps at Pahiatua, 1 November 1944
  
 Polish refugees arriving in Wellington on board 
the General Randall, 1 November 1944
   
Polish refugees, including boys Stanislaw Manterys and Petrus, 
arriving in New Zealand on the ship General Randall, 1 November 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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