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Originally produced for TVNZ in 1981
Contents: Charlotte Anne -- Old Bill's soliloquy -- The Parara express -- Pull up another dog -- The Reverend and the Bullock driver -- Trams -- Ferry to Devonport
Collection of vignettes that utilise the creative writings of the late John T. Diamond whose ballads paint a rhymed history of the New Zealand pioneers, particularly the settlers who earned their living cutting the mighty kauri trees in Auckland's Waitakere Ranges. Includes the history of trams from horse drawn carriages to the battery operated trams in Gisborne and, the kauri ferry boats that transported people from Devonport to Auckland