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Young child Jennifer Gray, a passenger on Qantas Catalina flying boat service from Suva, Fiji, to Sydney, Australia, helping steward R M White with dishes

Crowd before a rugby game between Fiji and New Zealand Maori teams at Athletic Park, Wellington

Young child Ms Shandler, a passenger on National Airways Corporation Douglas DC-3 flight from Auckland to Fiji, reads a newspaper with an unidentified male passenger

Three unidentified members of the RNZAF (Royal New Zealand Air Force), one holding a camera, under palm trees on the Guadalcanal coast, at Camp Kiwi, Solomon Islands

Intelligence staff from 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force (in the Pacific), on Nissan Island, New Guinea, during World War II

Mutzel, Gustav, 1839-1893 :[Parrots, including kea, kaka and kakapo]. Tab 18. Druck u. Verlag von Th. Fischer, Cassel. [1878-1883]

Hodges, William, 1744-1797 :Man of the island of Mallicolo / drawn from nature by W. Hodges ; engrav'd by J Caldwall. - London; Strahan, 1777.

Hodges, William, 1744-1797 :View in the Island of Pines, Drawn from nature by W. Hodges. Engrav'd by W. Byrne. London, W Strahan, 1777.

Captain demonstrating inflation of life jacket to unidentified male passengers on Tasman Empire Airways air boat RMA New Zealand ZK-AME flight to Fiji

Group portrait of three unidentified RNZN soldiers at attention standing on top of TEAL Short S30 Empire Class flying boat 'Aotearoa' ZK-AMA, Suva, Fiji

View of harbour, Suva, Fiji, including tail of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd Short Empire flying boat 'Aotearoa' ZK-AMA, and an unidentified boat

Members of 27 Mixed Anti Aircraft Regiment operating a 3.7mm gun in defence of Nandi Aerodrome, Fiji