Title: War Economy

Author: Baker, J. V. T.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1965, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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Relief in 1943

With the substantial volume of supplies under Lend-Lease in 1943 came also record imports from the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Total importing in that year reached £95 million, of which nearly half was munitions and war stores. This was, in value, 70 per cent higher than imports had ever been before. The worst of New Zealand's supply problems were over.

Chart 29 shows the increase, in 1943, in value of imports from the principal supplying countries.