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 Auckland City Of Sunlight
 Tracy '80 - Episode
 Journeys in National Parks: Hauraki Gulf
 Never Say Die
 Heartland, Stewart Island
 Kapiti Hono Tatati Hono - My Island, My Home

Synopsis

In this episode from NZ television’s first local documentary series, pioneering producer Shirley Maddock visits the Hauraki Gulf island of Waiheke — just 11 miles from downtown Auckland. A time consuming boat trip has kept it as the preserve of holidaymakers and retirees but faster transport is on the way. In a nicely judged delve into island life, Maddock is eloquent and engaging as she meets local identities, visits a wedding, a 21st, and the primary school sports day — and ponders Waiheke’s past, present and future, as Auckland inevitably reels it in.

Credits (2)

 Shirley Maddock

Shirley Maddock
Presenter, Director, Producer

 Don Whyte

Don Whyte
Camera

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Comments (3)

 Sonia Macleod

Sonia Macleod

Posted at 09.50AM - 26.09.2011

Absolutely delightful!!

 Glen Adams

Glen Adams

Posted at 03.07PM - 09.09.2011

Interesting to compare developments since 1965.
Glen Adams (Waiheke Island)

 Carlos Valdivieso

Carlos Valdivieso

Posted at 01.43PM - 26.08.2011

Wonderful. Thanks a lot.

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 NZ Broadcasting Corporation

NZ Broadcasting Corporation

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 Tracy '80 - Episode

Tracy '80 - Episode

Television, 1980 (Full Length Episode)

A rather different excursion on the Hauraki Gulf

 Heartland, Stewart Island

Heartland, Stewart Island

Television, 1993 (Excerpts)

An island at the other end of the country

 Kapiti Hono Tatati Hono - My Island, My Home

Kapiti Hono Tatati Hono - My Island, My Home

Television, 2007 (Full Length)

A rather different island way of life

 Journeys in National Parks: Hauraki Gulf

Journeys in National Parks: Hauraki Gulf

Television, 1987 (Full Length)

Further exploration of the Hauraki Gulf

 Never Say Die

Never Say Die

Film, 1988 (Trailer and Excerpts)

A more-relaxed Waiheke visit

 Auckland City Of Sunlight

Auckland City Of Sunlight

Short Film, 1946 (Full Length)

Another island in the Hauraki Gulf

Quotes

Being single and the youngest of a close and loving family meant I that could be as devoted to my work as any religious to her vocation. Time after time, with not a backward glance, I went darting off to one island or another, owing responsibility to nothing but the job in hand. 

– Shirley Maddock in the Islands of the Gulf book (Revised Edition) Collins, 1983 p 14

Home go the weekenders, back to the mainland with bundles and baskets and babies and sticky bunches of wild belladonna lilies, pushing their tired sandy feet up the gangway. 

– Shirley Maddock, Islands of the Gulf

Television news, interviews and documentaries were skills nobody knew anything about when the medium arrived here. Shirley's background in radio and theatre, combined with her extreme intelligence, helped put together groundwork which has remained a benchmark lasting to this day as the industry has flourished. 

– Max Cryer remembers Shirley Maddock (Sunday Star Times, 14 Oct 2001)

People at that time were used to a constant diet of overseas programmes. Suddenly they saw places on TV they knew — it was their own country. 

– Shirley Maddock on Islands of the Gulf (Women’s Weekly - 14 March 1983 p28)