SOMETHIING NEW UNDER THE SUN

[Music] Now set the volume control on your projector the sound level should be adjusted until my voice can be clearly understood in all sections of the room you are now ready to particip Pan-American travel Adventure ah River and Africa away Y national park well all in all it's rather an interesting world I live in don't you think I call it a world of curious contrast it's well you see actually it's not the world at all I'm talking about it's my country this New [Music] Zealand New Zealand a country I feel hairs everything in the world [Applause] [Music] [Music] of course every film has to have a cost of characters and so does every country they work the land Drive the Sheep manage the businesses run the homes go to school or just grow up they cast the character of the country this is hanani wiata he's New Zealand every we inch of him so is his father George the Maui and the Paka that's us together we are New Zealand but the Mai has a Polynesian culture that never leaves him that reaches way back to the time he discovered New [Music] Zealand Farmers judges lumbermen businessmen members of parliament doctors they remember always their Mai Heritage the Huger dance of [Music] defiance [Music] [Music] [Music] this Mai symbol of defiance actually made New Zealand there's a legend that tells us of the ancient god mawei who was out fishing one day with his two brothers he hooked New Zealand pulled it out of the warm Pacific and cautioned his brothers not to touch but even Gods aren't perfect so the brothers fought over it and it broke and fell back in into the sea so this act of defiance is what caused New Zealand to resemble a broken fish up on the tail there we built our largest and oldest city ockland ockland like Corinth stands arride to Seas at least that's what my father used to tell me as we climbed the rim of the crater to the top of Mount Eden so as a boy I used to try to Focus one eye on the mighty Pacific and the second eye on the tasmin sea it was my own small Defiance and it never worked I've always found it much better to focus both eyes and just look at oan you know it's always puzzled others why people who are surrounded by thousands of natural lake and beautiful beaches should plunk down an enormous swimming pool at the edge of a big city but there you are and it is fun for a change ah change Oakland Town Hall there used to seem giant to me now it has to look up to more modern buildings that's the way of time touch the Earth on New Zealand says a Mari song and a flower [Music] blooms Gardens do grow easily all year through some houses seem built of flowers everywhere you look nowadays something new seems to be added alongside our [Music] heritage we wear our heritage where everyone can see it even in our enthusiasm for the fast-paced sporting events of Oakland obviously pace and enjoyment are relative AR they blood stops bubbling violently at a certain point of life and you enjoy gentle sport in a gentle climate of course there's horse racing rugby whatever you want is just a walk over bus ride away now that's not boiling blood you know that's called North Island Defiance what made it possible to build our capital city at the tops of steep hills Wellington always a wonderful view isn't it see down there Fort Nicholson Harbor one of the most beautiful and best deep waterer harbors of the world you know to me Wellington has a well bold spirit because from this city the center of our government we've moved forward in big bold steps always seemed to y City to me with a love of movement so many new buildings going up you sometimes forget that just around the corner is the South [Music] Seas as this boat ride in the South half of the broken fish will testify I here often in Queenstown in South Ireland lot of wonderful New Zealand history down there our Pioneers roamed these Plains planting american-like Western towns wherever they stopped and I think it's proper that even though we're a very young country we have a couple of ghost towns in our background oh what stories my grand father told about our Gold Rush of the 1880s always possible to pick up a few Shillings by dipping into history as it were he's one of many weekend gold prospectors whose hobby often pays off but actually this particular man finds most of his gold somewhere else this is gold New Zealand gold the rich soil continual climate the Farms this is typical New Zealand [Music] farming I mean it no exaggeration this is the way we Farm here completely mechanized every inch on the ground and in the air we do quite a bit of our farming from the air combination of Science and aerial acrobatics this sort of farming was pioneered here in New Zealand scientifically prepared first fertilizer is used to do what we call Aerial top dressing thousands of Acres of once useless land have been made highly productive through this kind of fertilizing only takes 58 seconds to land load take off again repeat this many times a day men like this came home from war with a love of flying and an idea about what could be done to farm the hilly country they love bill and his fellow Pilots have seeded and fertilized Mountain areas you couldn't reach with a [Applause] plow yes sir here in New Zealand we've given birth to a whole new way of farming we drop fence posts this way seed the hills by air dust the crops an interesting point is that this method of fields and fertiliz most farmers use aircraft even on level land Hills of course pretty hard to dairy farm so they're used for another important kind of farming somehow sheep don't mind climbing Hills especially when the ground is loaded with Rich well seasoned grasses This is highly specialized New Zealand farming [Music] like traffic policemen those sheep dogs always a few Strays in every flock I suppose they're a lot like people hunger even in sheep produces restlessness as well as skinny sheep sheep so they have to be driven to Fresh Green Pastures sometimes think those drover are part sheep themselves or at least as much a part of the New Zealand landscape as sheep always find them driving their flocks to new pastures to new sheep stations to one of the many government Laboratories for testing New Zealand sheep farming is highly scientific the breeding is controlled through the use of artificial examination the pastures are scientifically planned and managed sheep food is filled with the latest vitamins the newest Wonder drugs are used to maintain an unusual High degree of good health and growth well actually without the careful calm scientific genius that enables man to overcome the problems of nature our sheep couldn't possibly be the finest in the world of course it's it's quite obvious this Marino Ram is not typical New Zealand stock which probably accounts for his unne Zealand likee attitude doesn't seem much need to bump heads here the climate's not for it and there's just too much to do and so much space in which to do it the sky is the [Music] limit sort of aerial top dressing for the eyes isn't [Applause] [Music] it sometimes I've wanted wanted to reach out and grab off the tips other times I've wanted to shove them out of my way I feel that way always flying over the southern elps because I know what the hunting fishing and skiing is like down there in some places they have small planes that land you in private pastures of snow so you can ski away the morning then they pick you up and carry you back to the lodge and hunting well planes perfect to carry you to the High Country for the kind of hunting you usually only read about in books this is rough rugged country deer are plentiful too plentiful fact is they're a national pest so you'd be performing a sort of government service if you would come and begag a few seasons wide open all year round a tropical jungle without snakes with no dangerous wild animals quite a feeling you know to walk through a thick jungle with nothing to worry about except the number of deer you want a bag for dinner ah there's a New Zealand ritual that starts the taste bonds hopping strong delicious billya along with fresh venison of course you can walk not fly to the nearest fishing stream nearest lake is probably only a half to an hour's ride from wherever you are New Zealand lakes and streams the likes of which you've never before seen just look at old Frost there he's fished New Zealand he knows what to expect every fish a fish you've dreamed about even the one that cut away you have to throw away because the legal minimum in New Zealand is 14 in 12 a day like this bets a dream to satisfy any fisherman rainbow trout average about 4 lbs run up to 12 lb or more the hands of an expert fisherman have rhythm balance like a symphonic conductor alen pie is one of the greatest trout fishermen in the world e I suppose like most Country Boys of the world hanani is growing up with a fishing pole in his hand but he's got it over most boys I think because there's one thing he can do they can't unless of course they live in wakari RI too I don't think there's another place in the world where cold and hot streams run side by side no chemical in the water either to spoil the taste in seconds fresh and sweet and delicious the ma really cook this way even today you know I'm I must confess that so many times I've watched phutu GAA play like this and each time it does something new to me I mean I come and I stand here in the center of this fantastic GAA Valley in wrei and I know how it must have been when the world began it like most of the world we don't just look at our natural wonders after all you can find a lot of strength a lot of power in Beauty a lot of Beauty in power too we're even pulling electric power out of old mother earth now tapping Nature's Powerhouse these are the Waki BS really something unique boring 3,000 ft through hot Earth to harness live geothermal steam pipe it Jets of pure superheated natural dry steam that will run generators to make more electricity for every nook and cranny of New Zealand manmade geysers well there's a lot of natural beauty man can't improve like our own New Zealand Fern and old kiwi there funny flightless wingless bird can't leave our national symbol out of the cast of this film and the wer he's New Zealand too well you've seen our Pocket World here I've always been tremendously grateful to the god Maui for packing most of the scattered beauties of the Earth into this 1,000 miles of country rarua taroa danan Timaru ohin Mutu Christ Church and you're only one or two days away from everything in [Music] it [Music] if you like every imaginable sport and if you like being made to feel welcome in our miniature World well that's New Zealand believe me there is something new Under the Sun down under I'm Bound for New Zealand my homeland New Zealand the place I long for from there I roam that's my New Zealand I'm heading for New Zealand the loveliest land on Earth I call my [Music] home