LEAVES FROM A DAIRY DIARY

Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F22965
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1953
Reference
F22965
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
In-House
Duration
0:28:00
Production company
Robert Steele Productions
Credits
Director: Robert Steele
Scenario: John Gundry
Photography: Robert Steele
Photography: Robert P. Clough
Production Assistant: Kenneth MacKwell
Commentator: Peter Gwynne

“This is a true story and characters who are named were real people. Every endeavour has been made to resemble them.... many of the farmers and their wives who appear are descendants of the very people who pioneered the dairy industry in the rich and fertile Waikato District of NZ.”

A history of dairying since the 1840s using historical reenactments. The film documents the founding of the NZ Co-op Dairy Company, the NZ Dairy Board in 1919, and the formation of the Waikato Dairy Industry.