Waragi was created to give the soldiers confidence to go into battle during the war.
"We went through some pretty hairy times during the last war."
National began producing for the war effort, and the number of employees went from approximately 200 to about 2500 during the war.
Everybody who had something against me is either dead or went respectable during the war and made a mint.
And he went to Vietnam four times during the war.
He also went through some financial distress during the war, due to the irregular and partial payment of his salary.
Maude sighed as she said: "We had to let this go to seed during the war.
The company almost went out of business during the war, so it created an industrial division to find government and military applications for latex.
'The interesting thing about prison is that it's a bit like going through the Blitz during the war,' she says.
In total, around 50,000 people went through such labour camps during the war.