Weekly Review No. 123 (1943)
Channel: Archives New Zealand
Date: 2012-11-06

New Zealand National Film Unit presents Weekly Review 123 (1943). 

WELFARE - WARTIME NURSERY 
Profile of a Wellington kindergarten which caters for the children whose parents have wartime jobs.

INDUSTRY - MORE MORTAR BOMBS 
A look at a mortar bomb factory and how the switch from peacetime to war has affected working men and women.

TRANS-TASMAN RELATIONS - ARRIVAL OF FIRST AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER THE HON. T.G. D'ALTON
On 26 January Australia celebrates ‘Australia Day’, its national holiday. The date marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships in New South Wales. New Zealand and Australia have long had a close relationship, as this film produced by the National Film Unit in 1943 explores. It shows the arrival of the first Australian High Commissioner, Thomas D’Alton, in Auckland during World War 2. New Zealand sent its own High Commissioner to Australia for the first time in 1942. The film shows D’Alton’s arrival with his wife, and his meeting with Prime Minister Walter Nash. He then gives a message of wartime solidarity to New Zealanders and emphasises the close bond between Australia and New Zealand.