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Here is New Zealand

Film (Full Length) – 1948

This solid character is going to make lots of fine breakfasts.
– The narrator refers to a pig
There is nothing shoddy about these houses — they’re built to last.
– The narrator on newly built state houses in Auckland
Long blue summer days, pale golden beaches, and the sparkle and glint of waves. Happy days of peace and forgetfulness when life becomes a dream, and time slips through the fingers like sand.
– Poet ARD Fairburn works his lyrical prowess