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Neighbourhood - Gisborne (with Meng Foon)

2014 32m Television
  • Arts/Culture
  • Popular Factual

Meng Foon — longtime Gisborne mayor turned Race Relations Commissioner — plays tour guide to his hometown in this episode of local celebration show Neighbourhood. He introduces those that make up the diverse community he leads as mayor. Telling their stories are Samoan crop pickers temporarily in New Zealand, and a young Filipino woman making pancit on her birthday — before a local Indian couple share their stories of life following arranged marriage, and a Brazilian/American couple perform their music at a barbecue with their Kiwi kids.