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VANISHING HERITAGE

Rights Information
Year
1947
Reference
F1029
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1947
Reference
F1029
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Duration
0:19:55
Production company
Apex Films
Credits
Narrative: J D Beybutt
Commentator: Clem Howell
Producer: Lee M. Hill
Photography: Lee M. Hill

A farming family's life on a sheep farm 30 miles from Masterton. Children ride four miles to and from Whareama School on horseback. Various shots of mustering, drafting, docking, earmarking and shearing sheep. Also shots of farms in the King Country, Mt Ruapehu area, Canterbury, South Island High Country. Auckland's Queen Street and One Tree Hill. Masterton township and area. Loading of goods and wool bales for Britain onto the Waiwera and Rangitikei.