Scrapbook 1964

This recording contains a programme entitled Scrapbook 1964, the first of four. The programme looks at various events that affected Masterton during 1964.

Some of the events include: the fire in Orange Hall, Masterton; comment on the rise in sugar price; Anniversary Day athletics; opening of the Golden Shears by Haddon Donald; reactions to the lung cancer scare, as discussed by a Masteron tobacconist; the anniversary of the Japanese prisoner of war riot at the camp outside Featherston. The incident is recalled by Mr Hardy, former mayor of Featherston.
Brian Lochore recalls the All Black tour of England

Recollection of Gallipoli by Sir Herbert Hart during a reunion of the Wellington/Hawkes Bay regiment. The men of the unit were all volunteers, fighting for the freedom and security of New Zealand. He says if Germany had won the First World War, New Zealand would have been taken over as a German colony.

Rod Laver talks about being a professional tennis player; Harry Burn recalls early radio in Masterton during the 1930s; the proposed takeover of The Dominion by Thompson Group; a Masterton baker, Mr Cockburn, describes baking 24 000 hot cross buns for Easter; the discovery of a Māori pendant at Palliser Bay; and the erection of plaque at Wharekaka Sheep Station.