MISC-DOCUMENTARY - NEW ZEALAND TUNNELLING, ITALIAN STYLE - TONGARIRO POWER PROJECT

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TZP6842
Media type
Moving image
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Series
MISC-DOCUMENTARY
Categories
News & Production
Duration
031:09
Production company
NZBC

In 1967 a group of Italian tunnellers were brought to New Zealand to work on the New Zealand Electricity Department's Tongariro Development Power Scheme. Nine years later they celebrated the first "holing" of the longest hydro tunnel in the world. This programme looks at their work, their social life, their wives and families.