[Bowen State building].

A compilation of six audio cuts.

1. Bowen State building is opened by the Prime Minister, Keith Holyoake on November 7, 1961.
2. Mr. Taylor recallsthe start of orchards in Alexandra in Central Otago for l in the 1900's. He says the first fruit tree saplings were sent from Kaikorai in Dunedin and an original walnut, pear and cherry trees are still growing, 80 years later. His father levelled the tailings left behind after goldmiing with a wheelbarrow and shovel. A Dane, Mr Iversen held the first irrigation rights in the area but his father and he had to water their trees by hand at first. He then tells some anecdotes about rabbiting.
Recorded in the 1960's.
3. A story of an illiterate rabbiter from the 1890's. Recorded in the 1960's.
4. Coverage of the three orbit flight by John Glenn in Mercury 6 with his comments from space and a conversation with President John Kennedy on February 20, 1962.
5. The transition of the NZBS, New Zealand Broadcasting Service to the NZBC, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, on March 31, 1962.
6. Air Vice Marshall Malcolm Calder gives a brief history of the Royal New Zealand Air Force from 1937 - 1962.