PICTORIAL PARADE 92

000:00 WESTPORT - CEMENT WORKS: A new cement works at Cape Foulwind in Westport is a busy place. High quality limestone, the base for cement, is found near here, as islarge deposits of sand and clay. Finding three important products within close proximity is a cement manufacturers dream! This plant, costing over £2 million, can produce over 30,000 tons per year. Westport is the administrative headquarters of the company and is geared to send out 1800 bags of cement an hour. The plant operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week and is among the most modern in the world.
002:24 ARCHITECTURE - NEW LOOK: Architecture in New Zealand indicates new trends in design with some of the buildings being erected throughout the country.
005:10 SOUTH CANTERBURY - TAMING A RIVER: Workmen take a lunch break from the £1000,000 flood scheme on the Orari River in South Canterbury. Only a short river, the Orari has caused flood damage of nearly £1000,000 in the past. The three stage plan began in 1946, and today stop banks control the River, bringing new farmland into production.