Heartland - Collingwood Anzac Day

This is scarier than the Nissan Mobil 500.

– Presenter Kerre Woodham gets to grips with steering a fishing boat

Well probably one of the big changes was when we got electricity.

– Lorna Langford on changes at her family's 60+ year old Bainham General Store

There's a powerful patriotic tradition in this community. With ANZAC Day approaching, the locals will gather to remember fathers and sons from the district who did not return from the great wars.

– Kerre Woodham on Collingwood's ANZAC Day traditions

When you're up in this stage of life, in the twilight years, you've got to have your swag packed — ready, you know? You never know when you'll be called up.

– Senior citizen Dick Moth on mortality

I'm really quite thrilled to see tourists, but I went to Queenstown once, and I really couldn't get out of there fast enough. Um...I think things become too artificial.

– Lorna Langford from Bainham General Store on the prospect of more tourists visiting Collingwood

I tell you what Dick: there's one thing I've learnt in New Zealand: and that's the greatest thing in the world is 'you can't bloody win, mate'.

– An RSA member talks to his mate Dick Moth at Collingwood's ANZAC Day commemorations

In a rural area I think and particularly here, teachers get alongside pupils much more so than perhaps in city schools ... kids are much more relaxed: you're not likely to get called 'sir' here. But then again we don't have those discipline problems that perhaps you do elsewhere.

– Collingwood Area School Principal John Fitzgerald on life in a rural school

Oh yes...I was quite friendly with conservative people and Labour people you see, and um, some of my conservative friends said "oh, if you wanted to get out of the Labour Party you shouldn't have got into that other damn thing — you'll never get out of that alive".

– Dick Moth is asked if it was difficult becoming a communist in 1940s New Zealand

I have grown up in the district all my life and I am pleased to be able to gather these photographs, for people to have a face for the names that are on the monument. That's a devastating thing to happen to a family and...I hope and pray New Zealand will never, ever be involved in anything like this again.

– Collingwood senior citizen Rex Wigzell on the war loss of the local Harvey family in WWl and his hopes for peace