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Heartland - Reefton
Television (Full Length Episode) – 1996
Gary McCormick visits the West Coast mining town of Reefton in this full length episode. He takes an early morning trip down Surprise Mine, and gains insights into the tough life of a coal miner. Meanwhile, miners' wives talk about being married to someone with a high risk occupation. McCormick also attends the First Light Festival, held to mark Reefton being the first town in the southern hemisphere with electric lighting. Later he heads to the abandoned gold mining town of Waiuta, and back in Reefton meets a woman with a doll collection which takes up her whole house.
It's not like getting on an escalator at Deka or something is it?– Gary McCormick on climbing down into a mine
Key Cast & Crew
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Produced by
Anson Grieve Productions
Source
Anson Grieve Productions
Acknowledgements
Made with funding from NZ On Air
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