The Royal couple are standing in the back of a specially converted jeep as it drives past thousands of children gathered in Athletic Park. As their car passes the children they all swarm en masse to the other side of the field to get another look as the jeep turns a corner.
A massive fire destroyed the nearly-completed three-storey Social Security building. Just seven weeks later a new building was completed and opened by the prime minister Michael Joseph Savage
The Roll of Honour in the foyer of Wellington's Railway Station honours the members of the New Zealand Railways Department who served overseas during the Second World War.
