New Zealand Fights for the Future
A blue-toned photograph of four children walking a country road toward farmland sits beside a cut-out photograph of a uniformed soldier with a field telephone, under 'New Zealand fights for the future'. The tell is 'the future' as an undefined virtue word (glittering generalities), with the children's everyday scene attached to the soldier's image (transfer).
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- New Zealand (issuer not printed on the sheet; no imprint visible)
- Region
- Oceania
- Country
- New Zealand
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Savage Government
- Leader
- Michael Joseph Savage
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not printed on the sheet (New Zealand). National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-875.
Text on the object
NEW ZEALAND FIGHTS for the FUTURE
