Mobile Unit – Gauge

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Life on board a 2NZEF troop ship: cramped, concerts and “Crossing the Line”

July 6, 2022July 19, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZ history, Sarah Johnston, sound, WWII

Some of the first recordings sent back to New Zealand for radio broadcasts in late 1940 give some insight into life on board the troop ship on which the Broadcasting Unit was travelling, as part of the Third Echelon of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force.

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Wounded, then shipwrecked: the powerful story of “A Simple Country Lad”

April 19, 2022April 21, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments A Simple Country Lad, Bobbie Loughnan, Corporal Robert Loughnan, Mobile Unit, Sarah Johnston, World War 2, World War Voices, WWII

By sound history researcher Sarah Johnston Among the recordings made by the National Broadcasting Service mobile recording unit in North

Senior Archivist Sound Sandy Ditchburn working on a U Series disc

Archiving precious World War Two recordings

August 1, 2019February 28, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments lacquer discs, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, sound archiving, sound preservation, U Series, Useries, World War Two

Ngā Taonga is delighted that the World War Two New Zealand Mobile Broadcasting Unit Recordings have been inscribed to the

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Firecrackers and Feasts – Chinese New Year in 19th Century Central Otago

February 10, 2017February 28, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1940s, Arrowtown, Charles Wong Gye, China, Cromwell, gold, goldrush, Guangzhou, Lawrence, Mobile Unit, Naseby, New Year, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Otago, radio, Sarah Johnston, St Bathans, William Wong Gye

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) It’s the Year of the Rooster

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Celebrating Christmas in the Desert, 1942

December 22, 2016February 6, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 28th Māori Battalion, Africa, Charles Bennett, Christmas, Jesse Mulligan, Māori Battalion, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, Silent Night, Tapu te Po, Wiki Katene, World War II, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Silent Night – Tapu te Po (Christmas

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Octavius Francis Harwood – A Journey of Family Discovery

May 31, 2016August 3, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 41 Comments 1830s, 1840s, 1940s, 200s, Alex Porter, digitisation, family, genealogy, maritime, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Otago, radio, Waikouaiti

By Alexandra Porter (Audio Conservator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Last year I was digitising a 1948 Mobile Recording Unit

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Tūrangawaewae Regatta

March 24, 2016April 5, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 14 Comments Charles Bennett, Charles Moihi Bennett, E noho e Rata, George Shaw, Jesse Mulligan, maritime, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, Ngāruawāhia Regatta, NZBS, radio, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, Te Pou o Mangatāwhiri, Te Puea Hērangi, Tūrangawaewae, Waikato River

The Waikato River at Tūrangawaewae was a hive of activity last weekend, with thousands of people turning out to watch

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Coromandel Yodellers and the Royal Navy – New Digitisations from the Mobile Unit Project

February 26, 2016March 3, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Alex Porter, Brown Sisters, Camilla Wheeler, Coromandel, dance, England, HMS Indefatigable, Kilbirnie Nurse’s Home, maritime, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, Sarah Johnston, Tangiura Brown, Te Waimarie Brown, Tex Morton, UNESCO, waiata, Wellington, World War II

By Sarah Johnston, Camilla Wheeler and Alex Porter (Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) One of Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision’s

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NZBS Mobile Unit Collection: Tahakopa Sawmill

December 17, 2015January 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Alex Porter, digitisation, forestry, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, radio, sound preservation

Audio Conservator Alex Porter is currently working on a project to digitise and describe the New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit

Preserving the Mobile Unit Collection

November 9, 2015February 26, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 1950s, Alex Porter, Camilla Wheeler, Geoff Hagget, Leo Fowler, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, NZBS, radio

In September this year Audio Conservator Alex Porter and Cataloguer Camilla Wheeler embarked on a project to digitise and describe