"We Want To Help Britain" - Nz Premier 1949

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Full title reads: "'We Want To Help Britain' - N Z Premier".

New Zealand.

MS Mr Sydney Holland, newly elected Prime Minister of New Zealand, seated at desk,

He says. "As the newly-elected government of New Zealand, my colleagues and I enter upon our great task in high hopes...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46723
Sort Number:
49/103
Time in/Out:
01:17:20:00 / 01:18:07:00
Canister:
49/103
Film ID:
1433.08
Issue Date:
26/12/1949

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