This classic wartime newsreel profiles the coal mining towns of Westland. It compares the town of Rūnanga, where mining has brought prosperity and a strong community life, with Denniston, which is set in rocky, inhospitable land high up a West Coast mountainside. Its tone is patriotic: “Here then are the men who feed NZ with the raw material of industrial prosperity ... They work in the darkness of the mines, buried away from the fresh splendours of the air above them.” The Weekly Reviews were screened in cinemas 1941 - 1949.
Included in the Labour Day Collection - October 2009
industry, miners, money, family, coal mining, westland, coalface, nfu, wages, engines, work, affluence, new zealand national film unit, mountains, trade union
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