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Erk's Work


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Region
Manawatu-Wanganui

Available online
1941

Erk’s Work was the official magazine of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) stationed at Ohakea in 1941 and printed by Dudley Rabone and Co in Palmerston North during World War II.

In the magazine’s first issue of February 1941, Wing Commander F E T Hewlett states that: ‘a station periodical can be of inestimable value, principally because it can ginger up the most essential quality of efficiency, a station spirit or esprit de corps which makes us all proud of serving in ‘a good show’ as opposed to being a little ashamed of being members of a weak or badly disciplined station’ (February 1941: 3).

While only the first issue of Erk’s Work is available, it may have ended due to the introduction of the national RNZAF magazine Contact in March 1941.

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