More than 500 Māori were working in essential industries during WW2.[i]
The Māori population was 100,870 on 31 December 1944, with 19% of Māori living in urban areas.[ii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Māori men and women in the industrial workforce, 1926–1945 – Te rāngai mahi – Māori in the workforce – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- [ii] go to main content The New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1945, section 3, Digital Yearbook Collection, Statistics NZ, www3.stats.govt.nz/New_Zealand_Official_Yearbooks/1945/NZOYB_1945.html[http://perma.cc/QK5N-XKSK].