TO LIVE IN THE CITY - 24 YEARS ON

A follow up, 24 years on, to the 1967 documentary on four Māori teenagers, from rural backgrounds, who went on a pre - employment course run by the Department of Māori Affairs in Wellington. That documentary looked at their adaptation to city and Pākeha lifestyles and their course competition. Twenty four years later the four participants talk about that transition, and subsequent changes to their lives. None have returned to their rural lifestyles and the final question posed is where do they belong?

0:00:59 Ripeka Heperi (now Gudgeon), seventeen years old from Okaihau.
0:02:34 Moana Ngata, eighteen years old from Te Araroa.
0:03:44 Phillip (Pipi) Waihi, seventeen years old from Ruatoria.
0:05:07 Grace Warmington (now Hartley), sixteen years old from Waimā.
0:09:26 Tour of Wellington.
0:10:30 Mayor of Wellington, Sir Francis Kitts.
0:14:34 te reo Māori, Grace Warmington (now Hartley).
0:16:12 Moana Ngata now resident in Guam.
0:21:23 Grace Hartley now resident in Titahi Bay in Wellington.
0:26:30 Ripeka Gudgeon now resident in Hamilton.
0:32:40 Phillip Waihi now resident in Brisbane, Australia
0:42:16 All four discuss what they consider to be their home and where they belong.