PERSONAL RECORD. TURNER, CAPTAIN GEORGE M. [85TH ANNIVERSARY OF HALF MOON BAY SCHOOL JAN. 1960]

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Year
1960
Reference
F35903
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1960
Reference
F35903
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Amateur
Duration
1:01:01
Credits
Photography: George M Turner

Rev. Fairlie Evans (oldest serving minister in NZ Presbyterian Church at time of filming) outside house. Panorama over Halfmoon Bay and wharfs in Stewart Island with ferry in foreground as folk go about business. ‘Half Moon Bay’ sign on building. New Zealand flag flying. People at Half Moon Bay school, man giving speech to crowd, men & women giving speeches & crowd shots. Shots of people on beach paddling, school children having races, people on beach.
Opening of museum on Stewart Island, Sept. 25th 1960 - sign ‘Stewart Island Museum. (1950). Rakiura. Whare Whaka Pakoko’. Woman in feather cloak with mere by sign. Men making speeches outside museum to seated group, man giving key to older man, another man gives speech, people outside museum.