000:00 Lead in shots
000:20 Title HEARTLAND presented by Gary McCormick
000:32 Title CHATHAM ISLAND Off The Map. Waitangi is the Chatham Island’s main town. The island’s main economy is fishing, followed by farming.
002:00 Andrew ‘Raro’ Pene: takes Gary out for a fishing trip. His parents are Rarotongan, and he has been on the island since 1964, when he came for a holiday and stayed on.
004:08 David Holmes, local historian, has been farming on the island since the late 1920s.
006:13 Waitangi Hotel where a dart tournament is taking place. Gary meets and talks to a local young lady - Celestine Lanauze. She has been to boarding school in New Zealand, but prefers to stay home on Chatham Island where she has ‘the good life’.
010:22 Denis Solomon - Tommy Solomon’s Grandson, speaks about the Moriori history.
012:25 David Holmes talks about early history. He is writing a history of the Chatham Islands. He talks about how Māori and ‘half castes’ were not allowed to drink liquor outside licensed premises.
015:00 Joyce Holmes shows the dining room where they don’t have power because the cords will spoil the ceiling. Gary sits in the Queen of Tonga’s chair.
Gary visits the local Weka Radio Station at the Centennial War Memorial Hall and its DJ Simon Pipe
019:07 George Coombes takes Gary on a weka hunting expedition. The weka is not protected on the island.
023:05 Graham Lee - Minister of Internal Affairs arrives on the island to open a new wharf facility.
024:34 Rev. Riwai Preece - Anglican Minister: takes Gary out to lay a flounder net, returning next morning to lift it.
Minister Graham Lee, declares the wharf facility open. The ‘Toroa Tour Group’ perform an action song and Simon Pipe a fire dance, all part of the evening’s entertainment.
037:13 The Women’s Suffrage Arts and Crafts Exhibition is held at the Centennial War Memorial Hall.
037:56 Vanessa Murch talks about an Woman’s evening screening Oprah Winfrey tapes about self-esteem.
038:42 Celine ‘Bubbles’ Gregory-Hunt talks about how women’s talents aren’t recognised, and some men have old-fashioned views about women.
039:19 Dr Anthea ‘Ant’ Goode says people on the island are very self-reliant, and she is only called when people absolutely need her, and some people carry out their own surgery.
039:51 Patrick Smith - Chatham Island Mayor says that the Chatham Islands must survive by being independent.
A rugby game takes place between the Kiwis and the Wekas. A fisherman has been in the team for 15 minutes: his fishing boat is in town, and has been holed up by bad weather, so he is taking part in the local rugby game. He plays in his jeans and gumboots.
Woman’s Suffrage Year is a fashion parade evening.