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Papakura Parade
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Region
Auckland
Available online
1944
Papakura Parade was the bi-weekly typewritten camp magazine of the Papakura Mobilisation (Mob) Camp, Auckland in 1944 during World War II.
Produced for the camp by the camp’s Army Education and Welfare Service (AEWS) committee, specifically by A Jackson-Thomas. According to its first issue, the magazine was to ‘give pleasure to and provide amusement for many … recording … the little events that mostly make up Camp life’ (15 February 1944: 1).
Papakura Parade encouraged a ‘lighter vein’ and stated that ‘the retention of a sense of humour among soldiers - even Base Wallahs - is often the one thing that saves them from trouble or even sometimes catastrophe’ (15 February 1944: 1). In this light, it featured camp news, notices sporting results, jokes, odds and sods and mutterings.
While it is not clear when Papakura Parade finished, but it is possible, being a mobilisation camp, that by 1944 many of the men stationed at Papakura had been deployed overseas before a new batch of returning soldiers arrived back from the Pacific.
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