Our first hundred years. Episode 41.

Highlights of the first hundred years of Aotearoa. A series of dramatised re-enactments of notable episodes in New Zealand's history.

The making of roads in New Zealand. The first story is set in 1854 featuring Henry Burling, the first man to drive a bullock over the Rimutaka Hills. Three years later a party of colonists from England, organised by C. R. Carter, followed the same route and founded a settlement which they named Carterton.

In 1865, Arthur Dobson finds a route between the east and west coast of the South Island - Arthur's Pass. He is then employed to build the road. Unfortunately his son, George, is murdered by highwaymen thinking he was carrying gold.