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- Title
- The Years Back - 13, The State of the Nation (Episode 13)
- Content partner
- NZ On Screen
- Collection
- NZ On Screen
- Description
This consolidating episode of the archive-based New Zealand history series finds World War II at an end, the return of Kiwi servicemen and the country in an optimistic mood. That's sealed by the 1950 British Empire Games where New Zealand is third on the medal table. But rising prices and low incomes lead to more militant unionism, culminating in the fractious waterfront workers dispute of 1951. At the same time there's a new flowering of the arts. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is establ...
- Format
- Video
- Date created
- 1973
- URL
- https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-years-back-episode-13-the-state-of-the-nation-1973
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