Insight. 1973, [Arthur Allan Thomas and the Crew murders] ; [Paeroa Wineera talks about moko].

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Year
1973
Reference
1556
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1973
Reference
1556
Media type
Audio
Categories
Documentary radio programs
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:30:15
Credits
RNZ Collection
Beatson, David (David Colin), Narrator
Craddock, Pat
Booth, Pat (b.1929, d.2018)
NAZER, Paul
Moodie, Robert Alexander, 1938-
Wineera, Paeroa, 1884?-1973, Interviewee

Insight '73 radio documentary programme about the Arthur Allan Thomas trials and appeals after he was charged and later convicted of the murder of Harvey and Jeanette Crewe at Pukekawa in June 1970.

David Beatson narrates the programme with discussion chaired by Pat Craddock.

Campaigning journalist Pat Booth outlines the work of the Thomas appeal committee and Crown solicitor Paul Nazer and law lecturer Robert Moodie discuss aspects of the case. [incomplete]

In a separate recording, Mrs Paeroa Wineera (Ngāti Toa) is interviewed about her memories of traditional Māori tattooing. [Interviewer is possibly Jack Perkins] She explains Tommy Porter, the man who did the moko came and about six Ngāti Toa women were going to be tatooed, and she was also, but her husband was against it, so she did not.
She talks about a woman she knew who tried to find a way to get her moko removed.
The man who did the moko [tommy Porter?] was from Ngāti Porou. She explains how the tatooing work was done with the woman lying on the floor. Other women would sit around her singing.