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Synopsis

This Pictorial Parade from 1959 has three stories: the first is about the opening of the Milson Deviation rail bypass, which diverted trains from the Palmerston North CBD. Prime Minister Walter Nash attended and gave a speech about the future of the fair city. Then it’s the Hastings for the National Ploughing Championship; the prize was a silver plough modelled after the first plough used in NZ. Lastly: the final voyages of the Echo, a historic flat-bottomed Kauri scow that sailed between Wellington and Blenheim, with footage of her sailing up the Opawa River.

Credits (8)

 Max Avery

Max Avery
Director, Editor, Writer

 John King

John King
Director, Editor, Writer

 Oxley Hughan

Oxley Hughan
Supervisor, Writer

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Old-timers know Echo well. They've seen her mast top slide above the willows; heard the beat of her engines for many a year. 

– Narrator

The plough turns the soil clean as a breaking wave. 

– Narrator

The echo of a shipping age that will soon be no more. 

– Narrator