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Firecrackers and Feasts – Chinese New Year in 19th Century Central Otago

February 10, 2017February 28, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1940s, Arrowtown, Charles Wong Gye, China, Cromwell, gold, goldrush, Guangzhou, Lawrence, Mobile Unit, Naseby, New Year, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Otago, radio, Sarah Johnston, St Bathans, William Wong Gye

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) It’s the Year of the Rooster

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70 Years Ago – Wanganella Strikes Rocks in Wellington Harbour

January 19, 2017February 9, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1940s, Australia, Ellen Pullar, maritime, ship, shipping, Wanganella, Wellington, World War 2, World War II, WWII

70 years ago, on 19 January 1947, the trans-Tasman passenger liner TSMV Wanganella hit Barrett Reef in Wellington Harbour. Coming

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Celebrating Christmas in the Desert, 1942

December 22, 2016February 6, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1940s, 28th Māori Battalion, Africa, Charles Bennett, Christmas, Jesse Mulligan, Māori Battalion, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, Silent Night, Tapu te Po, Wiki Katene, World War II, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Silent Night – Tapu te Po (Christmas

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“A Date that will Live in Infamy” – The 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2016December 15, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1940s, Auckland, David Spencer Finlayson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hawaii, Kiribati, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Otago Daily Times, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, radio, Sarah Johnston, Thomas Matthews, United States, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) A “date that will live in

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Difficult Country – Kaikoura’s Tenuous Road and Rail Links

November 29, 2016December 22, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 2010s, Albert Creed, Bruce Petrie, Canterbury, car, Christchurch, earthquake, Hanmer, Kaikoura, Kekerengu, mail, Main Trunk Line, Ministry for Public Works, NZBC, Picton, Radio New Zealand, railway, Sarah Johnston, transport, Waiau

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) The hilly territory between Canterbury

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