Pictorial Parade No. 98 - Expanding Auckland

Our most cosmopolitan city, lying between two beautiful harbours, is built on a ring of old volcanoes but the explosive activity there today is not volcanic.

– Narrator, Peter Gwyne

Do drop in for a cup of tea this afternoon. My new house is being delivered today.

– Narrator, Peter Gwyne

The voiceover launches a barrage of statistics ‘10,000 new citizens a year, half a million people in 10 years’ while depicting traffic lights, parking buildings, motorways, office blocks, blocks of flats, civic schemes, airport expansion, wharves, railways, the just completed Harbour Bridge, new suburb and so on, to convey a ‘feeling of restless energy’.

– Murray Edmonds in his 2021 book, Time to Make a Song and Dance, Page 202