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Potato picking in New Zealand, 1950's - Film 17754

1,010 views · Published 17 July 2015 · 12:00 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: HuntleyFilmArchives · 2015 · Education

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Amateur home movies.
Potato picking in probably New Zealand.
A boy waits at a gateway sat on post.  Other boys arrive on bicycles.  They walk up a hill messing about trying to trip one another up.  Washing hands in bowl of soapy water outdoors.  The boys collect bundles of hessian sacks and forks from a shed.  They carry the sacks and forks to a field.
A potato field and forking up the potatoes. Potatoes seen lying on the ground.  Boys picking up potatoes and putting them into sacks.  They use a needle and string to draw the tops of the sacks together, leaving the sacks in groups.  More potato picking with a sheepdog laying in the field.  Carrying full sacks covering a number of sacks with empty bags.  The dog watches.
A boy and two little girls run across to feed (possibly potatoes)  a Jersey cow in field. They climb the fence and one little girl pats the cow.  Feeding a pig and then chickens and ducks. Boy chases ducks onto a stream.  Ducks swimming in the water.
Back in the potato field a woman uses a carrying bag and is sorting potatoes, taking those she picks to a lorry loaded with sacks.
A machine pulled by horses for lifting potatoes, creating a lot of dust for man working alongside.  Horse and cart leaving the field with dog running underneath between the wheels.  Boys unloading sacks into a store. Grading the potatoes. Pulling swedes, topping and cleaning.  Pulling carrots. Boys washing outdoors.  Various vegetables.  Lorry with Ting Wing market gardener Owakune written on its door.

Spliced together with:.
Amateur home movie older woman looking at flowering cactus and of a boy playing in a garden with a toy plane.  Woman and boy play cricket joined by a little girl who takes a turn batting.  Older lady inspects fruit on an apple tree. Horse jumping at a show.  Cattle showing in a ring.  Looks like the U.K, thatched cottage

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