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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Adrian Lewis, post: 2665680, member: 12565&quot;]Shipped in from the mother country. NZ was a British colony until about 1947? and as with Australia and other outposts, in the 19th and early 20thC didn&#039;t have much of a manufacturing base which only a few years previous had been give over to supplying the military of WWI. The English Civil Service pen pushers loved uniformity and the same basic furnishings would have been supplied to government offices and military establishments across the Empire alike and the British Government would have had already existing contracts with British manufacturers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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