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Taranaki
Short Film (Full Length) – 1954
Visitors always say how well and healthy our kiddies look. We don’t notice it ourselves, although naturally we think our particular ones are perfect.– Narrator Paul Ricketts
We’ve been here a 100 years, and we’ve felled the forests of Taranaki, tilled the land and built our towns. About 24,000 of us live in this New Plymouth, the town that’s grown on the site the settlers cleared.– Narrator Paul Ricketts
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