Wellington, 18 October 1942-17 October 1943

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File 5

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Subjects include: Lady Newall's visit to university; AGM of Royal Society of New Zealand; war news from North Africa; examinations; work on house and garden; tour of army camps with Ernest Beaglehole; duties with Home Guard; visit to Beaglehole at Otaki; Christmas holiday at Paremata; religious observance in New Zealand; touring munitions and war work factories in Auckland; visit to Rotorua and Ohinemutu; Hell's gate; geysers of Whakarewarewa 'boiling water being flung 20 ft or so in the air'; Piha; 'the great shame is that over 90 per cent of New Zealand's bush has been destroyed, some of it to make room for farm lands'; Auckland University staff; holiday at Marlborough Sounds 'scenery is really very fine'; fishing; food shortages due to need to feed American troops in the Pacific; factory tour to Invercargill and Christchurch; coal shortage; Lancaster bomber touring New Zealand; New Zealand society; visit to mental hospital at Porirua; Home Guard disbanded; food parcels; Mrs Rothmann, German refugee psychoanalyst; Dominion settlement Association; factory tours of Napier and Palmerston North; election campaign.

Includes: postcard of Chief Mahuta, Te Toka. (168p.)

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