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Interviews recorded for a documentary about New Zealand during the years of Depression between 1932 - 1935. [See edited programme ID323336 The Sugarbag Years] It includes recollections by various people, some unidentified:
Len Bergman talks about relief work and different aspects of hardship
Harry Bryn talks about the importance of radio during the Depression
A. Nixon talks about how it related to schools, especially the Palmerston North school
A Dunedin man talks about only having 2 1/2 days work a week and getting a 6s3d Christmas bonus but no paid holidays
A Dunedin woman recalls asking for assistance from the relief kitchen and inspectors visiting the unemployed and giving gardening instructions to grow a vegetable garden. Some people were given food from the relief kitchen.
A man talks about supporting people on his farm. There were many men on the roads looking for work.
John A. Lee talks about the Auckland riots and how they began and a secret meeting between Labour MP's and Auckland businessmen. He says the atmosphere of the riot was not violent, but was more like a picnic.
Joe Carroll from Wanganui was a freezing worker and talks about how people in power - managers and local officials - seemed to want to keep them down. Anything to make life a bit tougher.
Detective Frank Brady talks about the Auckland riots and crime in Auckland.
Comments by Walter Nash and a gardener from the Hutt Valley talking about selling local produce.