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Spectrum 667. Yesterday's school at the bay

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Year
1959
Reference
6043
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1959
Reference
6043
Media type
Audio
Categories
Documentary radio programs
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:35:01
Credits
RNZ Collection
Barrie SLYFIELD
Alwyn Owen, 1926-, Producer
National Radio (N.Z.) 1986-2007

In 1959, a newly married Barrie Slyfield went to Kennedy Bay on the Coromandel Peninsula, lured by the attractions of a sole charge school in a coastal setting, and the cheap housing that accompanied it.

Access was at times difficult, and there was no electric power - but these disadvantages were offset by the richness of life in the little Māori community. These are among Barrie Slyfield's memories as he talks to Alwyn Owen.