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People of the Waikato
Short Film (Full Length) – 1956
When you’re young, you don’t care where all the water comes from, nor where its going. When you’re plump and jolly as well, life is really wonderful.– Narrator Patrick Smyth describes children playing on the edge of the Waikato
When it passes Atiamuri where the pine forests have been planted, the river is smoother. It runs deep here, in places twice as deep as its wide.– Narrator Patrick Smyth
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