Back Issues: Fear, riots and renamed streets
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. During World War I, anyone seen as linked to enemy countries was a target for hatred. Not even people born in New Zealand were immune. In the Manawatū, German immigrants, people with non-British sounding surnames, Lutheran churches and associated schools suffered discrimination. Many street names associated with Germans were changed.
Identification
- Object type
- Image
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- March 25, 2023
- Digitisation id
- 2023Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_040973
- Format
- Born Digital
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- Community Archives
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Creation
- Created By
- Val Burr
- Place
- Manawatū, Whanganui, Horowhenua
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