PERSONAL RECORD. OSLER, JAMES MITCHELL. [VARIOUS SCENES: HIGHLAND MARCHING BAND; CROWD AT THE RACES; SURF CASTING; DYING SHARK; MĀORI WEDDING - OLGA OKEROA WHAITIRI AND JAMES PEAKMAN]

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Year
1946
Reference
F109247
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1946
Reference
F109247
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
0:10:51
Taonga Māori Collection
Yes
Credits
Filmmaker: James Mitchell Osler

Elevated view of Highland pipe band marching along street.
Views of a race course. Racing horses entering the display circle. Elevated view of punters, mainly men wearing hats. Picnickers at race course.

Men fishing from beach; men casting net in shallows. Families and rowboat at the beach. [Shark] struggling in the shallows. Māori woman walking into the shallows with a kete. Boys looking at very large dead fish on beach; one is kicking it. Gutting fish on the beach.

Footage of the 21 January 1939 wedding of Olga Okeroa Whaitiri and James Carroll Peakman at The Church of the Latter Day Saints' in Nuhaka. The brides uncle Mr George Nepia escorts the bride and her wedding attendants into the church.

Bride's attendants:
Chief bridesmaid: Linnia Moller, niece of the bride wearing a frock of Jasmine Satin.
Bridesmaids: Mary Peakman and Milly Peakman, sisters of the bridegroom, wearing frocks of Jasmine Satin.
Margaret Smith, Api Lewis and Molly Te Ngaio, wearing frocks of dark mauve Mignon Satin.

Flower girls: Ida Thompson, niece of the bride and Hilary Rangi.

Train bearer: Bonnie Campbell.

Grooms attendants:
Best man: Wallace Smith, brother of bride.
Groomsmen: Thomas Hook, John Walker, Logan Tuki, John Peakman and Whenu Peakman.

Wedding party and guests gathered outside the wooden church.

Men lifting hāngī and holding up kai for the camera. Guests moving into hall for wedding feast, wedding party seated at table eating alongside three tiered wedding cake.

Fishermen pulling freshly caught shark onto row boat, lugging it onto the beach.