Listen to Paekakariki history celebrated and remembered
For your listening pleasure a really rich hour of Paekakariki oral history recorded at the St peters centennial celebrations: https://soundcloud.com/paekakariki-fm/te-pae-paekakariki-oral-history-live-from-st-peters-hall
And also the fantastic centennial ceremony with great speeches and history (inclu. Graeme Coe, Kris Faafoi, and Jan Logie), and an amazing community singalong captured for you to hear.
https://soundcloud.com/paekakariki-fm/st-peters-hall-celebration-april-3rd-2018-part-1
The main ceremony
https://soundcloud.com/paekakariki-fm/st-peters-hall-celebration-april-3rd-2018-part-2
The singalong
Interviews with Karl Farrell of Ngati Haumia, Margaret Griffiths (who has been an enormous part of the hall, church and community), Gloria Hakkens (who came here in the 1950s and is a wealth of family, hall and local cinematic memories – her father ran the St Peter’s Hall movie theatre), John Porter (long term resident with memories of growing up in Paekakariki in the 1940s), Joan Hilder (who grew up from 1960 in a railway house in what is now Ames Street reserve and his whose father was the projectionist), and Helen Hill (who moved here in 1958). Producers Sylvia Bagnall and Mark Amery. Presenter: Paul Radich.
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