AROUND PORT NICHOLSON

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Year
1934
Reference
F10367
Media type
Moving image

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Rights Information
Year
1934
Reference
F10367
Media type
Moving image

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Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Short
Duration
0:15:45
Production company
Sound Film Productions
Credits
Producer: Lee M. Hill
Producer: Js Vinsen Studio
Commentary: Martin Evans
Sound Recordist: Jack Welsh
Photography: Joseph Sylvanus Vinsen
Photography: Lee M. Hill
Photography: Welsh Sound System
Distb: British Empire Films

A tour of Wellington including Oriental Bay, Island Bay, the opening of parliament by Governor General Lord Bledisloe, movie theatres, the Happy Valley sheep station muster along the south coast, roller skating in formation and the harbour.
Local industries are shown including a milk bottling factory, the making of Bryant and May wax matches, a textiles factory, making boxes for Shell Oil and the manufacture of Adams Bruce sweets and Queen Anne chocolate.