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WEEKLY REVIEW 434: GOLDEN BAY

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Year
1949
Reference
F7922
Media type
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Year
1949
Reference
F7922
Media type
Moving image
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Series
WEEKLY REVIEW
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Newsreel
Duration
0:09:30
Production company
NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT
Credits
Producer: Stanhope Andrews
Supervisor: Cyril Mason
Supervisor: Geoffrey Scott
Director: Cecil Holmes
Camera: Ron McIntyre
Camera: Don L Oakley
Editing: Cedric Herbert
Sound: Claude Wickstead
Sound: Robert Allen
Narrator: Briton Chadwick

Developed as a gold mining region, dairying is now the mainstay of Golden Bay.

This film looks at the activities on the Page family farm and the mining of dolomite at the former coal mine at Mount Burnett. Also mined in small quantities are asbestos, marble, lime and silica.

The Golden Bay cement works features, as well as work and leisure activities in the town of Takaka. An early Newmans coach parks in the main street. Locals include: Matt Galloway, Norm Benson, Mr Halley, Mrs Bidder, Eric Spence.