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PICTORIAL PARADE 3

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Year
1953
Reference
F3900
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F3900
Media type
Moving image
Series
PICTORIAL PARADE
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Newsreel
Duration
0:10:51
Production company
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT

K Force Christmas: The 16th Field Regiment in Korea celebrate Christmas with a hāngi. In keeping with army tradition the officers serve the meal, in this case Colonel Patterson and Battery Commander Major Manders.

World Shearing Record, A NEW CHAMPION: Godfrey Bowen beats the world record by 47 sheep and shears 485 sheep in one day in a shed near Palmerston North.

Dams and Dynamite...BIG BLASTS AT WHAKAMARU FOR FOURTH WAIKATO POWER-STATION: The last rocks are dynamited to create a diversion channel redirecting the Waikato River in order to build the dam and power house at Whakamaru.