Tauranga 1960-1964, from the personal record of Don Stewart

Personal record of Don Stewart. Tauranga 1960-1964.
Originally from an 8mm movie by Tauranga jeweler Don Stewart (1929-2022). It appears to be a copy, recaptured from footage projected onto a sheet.

Scenes include:

• Mount Maunganui beach (c 1962)
• Arrival of "Chinese Junk"
• Royal visit
• Logging at the Mount wharf
• Hairini bridge being built with old bridge in background
• Town Hall light up
• Neon signs downtown Tauranga
• The Inferno a nightclub in Elizabeth St
• Tauranga airport
• BNZ bank demolition
• Memorial Park fountain and playground with new Harvard plane to play on
• Tauranga Primary School patrols
• Rafting on Waikareao estuary
• Orange festival
• King and Queen of Thailand's visit at the time of an Orange festival
• Orange festival float parade
• Highland Games at Wharepai Domain (Peter Snell)
• Raft race Coronation Pier
• Club car day Welcome Bay Road
• Car Club Grey Street Tauranga
• Marine Land at Mount Maunganui
  Approximately 60 minutes
  
  
  
  
  Tauranga City Libraries AV 22-019