The entry of Japan into the war had meant the loss of New Zealand’s main supply of pearl-shell buttons, states the Economic Information Service. The pearl buttons available from India were insufficient to meet the demand. To a large extent New Zealand was dependent upon substitutes in the form of plastic buttons, which were made in New Zealand and also imported from Canada and the United State*,
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24741, 5 December 1945, Page 10
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