Mrs. Murray on Mackenzie Country

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35636
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35636
Media type
Audio
Duration
00:19:56
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RNZ Collection
SLOW, Ernie
GRIGG, Giles

This recording contains a programme on the Mackenzie Country during the 1920s. A resident of Godley Peaks, Mrs. Louisa Murray, is interviewed by Giles Grigg of National Radio's "Greenbelt" Rurals programme. She talks about her experience of living on a farm in the Mackenzie Country during the early 1900s.

Louisa describes crossing the Godley Peaks River, butter churning, farm-hands, and the poem "The Godley Ghost" is read.

[This version of the poem was taken from a copy written by Ernie Slow some years after the poem's original appearance. Ernie died in 1960. The poem is read here by Alan Jervis].