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Continuity announcer Barbie Wylie introduces the programmes.
9am-10am. A Samoan community programme with the Pacific Island Resource Centre of Wellington. Presenter Sianona Osler [?] interviews the centre's organisers and workers: Elaine Annandale (Samoan and Tongan), Ele Matagi (Niuean), Paula Clifford (Samoan), Lucy Bolt (Samoan).
Elaine talks about the services they offer Pacific people and how they can help them in their interactions with New Zealand authorities and institutions. She says volunteers help staff the centre when she is away helping clients. She is hoping to get a Cook Islands speaking volunteer.
Ele Matagi talks about the need to open in the evening for clients who work during the day and the history of the Centre which came out of PACIFICA, the Pacific Island women's organisation. She explains the difference between their centre and the Multicultural Educational Centre in Buckle Street, which deals with education requests.
Paula Clifford is a field worker for the centre and explains her role.
Lucy Bolt is an assistant worker and talks about her role at the centre.
The abortion experience for New Zealand with the Society of Research on Women. The New Zealand USSR Society on contemporary Russian popular music and part one of a reading of "The Gravedigger of Zarachin" (?)
10am-11am. Part two of "The Gravedigger of Zarachin"(?)
Community news and notices.
Te Reo Māori Society programme with Cathy Dewes [in te reo Māori and then in English.] Discussion by several society members on the background of the society and its activities to date.
Thomas Rangihuna talks about his involvement in the mōteatea programme which the Society began in 1977 in Wellington secondary schools, to promote traditional Māori oral literature. The mōteatea programme was adapted for television in 1980 and screened on "Kaleidoscope" for Māori Language Week.
John Dial [?] talks about the submissions to the government made in the 1970s by the Society and the Māori Graduates Association. He talks about programmes the Society has set up since then.
Rawiri Rangitauira talks about the Te Reo Māori Society's activities in trying to promote Māori language and culture on television, including lobbying for a prime time Māori language news bulletin.
Andrew Robb talks about why the society took up bilingual education as one of its projects and the prospects for it being adopted by Wellington schools.
Buskers of Wellington with music by Wellington street musicians.
11am-12noon. Buskers of Wellington continued.
Tom Appleton from the German Cultural Society in Wellington
Wholemeal Theatre with a play called 'Another play over and deeper in debt'.
The Vietnamese Community programme, part 1.
12noon-1pm. The Vietnamese Community programme, part 2. Community Forum with live comment.