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The City And The Suburb (part one)
Television (Full Length) – 1983
Our search for security ended up in the suburb. And a suburban ideal – a happy, healthy, carefree life lived in the garden – became the New Zealand ideal. To a threatened generation in 1935, the security of the conforming suburb, seemed like paradise.– Hamish Keith
I’ve never seen such a lot of deaths before, all at one time.– A nurse remembers the influenza epidemic
To Victorian and Edwardian New Zealanders the sun wasn’t really important.– Hamish Keith
Just down here, a few metres under New Zealand’s busiest intersection, are the remains of the Ligar Canal, perhaps the least appealing of New Zealand’s ancient monuments.– Hamish Keith, on the Waihorotiu stream beneath Queen Street
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