This amateur home movie was originally captured on colour Super 8mm film and depicts a variety of activity in and around Avatiu Harbour, Rarotonga from 1969 to 1971.
Footage includes;
Western wharf under construction, October 1969. Launching fishing boat ‘Ravakai’.
Ships at dock including ‘Ai Sokula’ (Suva) and [‘Boomer’] . Earthworks (reclaimed land). Launching Aitutaki barge by crane. Launching ‘Te Avarua’. Blasting, earthworks. Vehicles and crowds at wharf. ‘Thallo’ at wharf 22/10/1970. [‘Thallo’ passed by ‘Akatere’ 17/11/1970]. [’Jean Philippe’ 17/12/1970]. Large cargo unloaded from ship. Views of harbour. Construction materials piled at wharf. Works continue [December 1970]. Crane dredging gravel from under water to reclaimed land. [Concrete laying machine]. Underwater explosive. Views of wharf. Crane dredging. Moving cargo of [squid] [depth charges] from ‘Thallo’, rows of them lined up on wharf, man sitting on one. Views of wharf with shed construction underway.