A series looking at the lifestyles of immigrants to New Zealand, their lives in their country of birth, and their impressions of New Zealand.
Programme Number: 178
Subject: Corrine Matthews
Roots: Indonesia
Producer: Eileen Cook
Corrine Matthews has lived in New Zealand for over forty years but she grew up in the then Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies [Indonesia.]
She describes her colonial childhood.
Although imprisoned by the Japanese during World War Two and threatened by Indonesian rebels fighting for independence, she has warm memories of Indonesia and its people.