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Those Were The Days: 1930s (from the pages of Weekly News)

Cordwainer from Melville

Those Were the Days - A Nostalgic Look at the 1930s from the Pages of The Weekly News

Hardback, large format, 175 pages, well illustrated. 1987.

Light creases on dust jacket otherwise very good condition.

The Weekly News was one of the success stories of New Zealand journalism. Famous for its bright pink cover, this magazine brought the events and the people of the country and the world to the towns and scattered rural hamlets of New Zealand and served to unite the nation as no other publication has done. Those Were The Days presents in this volume a social history of New Zealand in the 1930s as seen through its pages.

Price: $10

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