{"id":638,"date":"2012-12-09T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T23:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/?p=638"},"modified":"2012-12-10T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:13:08","slug":"university-archives-spotlight-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/2012\/12\/09\/university-archives-spotlight-world-war-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"University Archives Spotlight: World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University Archives Spotlight page has a new feature &#8211; <a title=\"Archives Spotlight: World War II\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/research\/library\/archives\/spotlight\/ww2.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Massey during World War II<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Massey Agricultural College saw a transformation during the War years, as an Army Staff Training College was established on the campus in 1941. Pre-fabricated wooden huts were erected on the Oval and an Army Staff Officers\u2019 Hostel was built adjacent to the Refectory to quarter Army officers \u2013 this hostel would later became known as McHardy Hall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/fms\/Library\/Images\/Photographs\/university-archives\/WWII%20Massey%20Campus%20-%2031%20May%201943.jpg\" alt=\"Massey Campus 1943\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massey Agricultural College 1943<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For other interesting highlights from the University Archives, take a look at the <a title=\"Archives Spotlight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/research\/library\/archives\/spotlight\/spotlight_home.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Archives Spotlight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University Archives Spotlight page has a new feature &#8211; Massey during World War II. Massey Agricultural College saw a transformation during the War years, as an Army Staff Training College was established on the campus in 1941. Pre-fabricated wooden huts were erected on the Oval and an Army Staff Officers\u2019 Hostel was built adjacent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":643,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}