Nau mai ki te pānui
o Ngā Taonga
Welcome to our newsletter Happy New Year from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision!
In our first newsletter of
2025, we share our most popular collection items of 2024, spotlight the many charming
home videos that are available to watch in the online collection, and reflect
on the contributions to te reo Māori by Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira. Each year, there’s always a few items in the Ngā Taonga
online collection that get a little more attention than the rest. This can be because
they’re newly available, were featured in a popular media outlet, or simply due
to their nostalgic value for audiences.
In the 2024 calendar year, these were the three most viewed
items in our collection.
3. Cadbury
Pinky Bar. Kind of Kinky
A camp Cadbury Pinky bar advertisement from 1976 set at a
disco, complete with hip people, afros and strobe lighting. The singer is Marc
Hunter of the band Dragon.
2. Cobb
& Co New Menu 1985
Starring Alison Holst, this training video introduces the
1985 Cobb & Co menu. Holst explains how to cook and prepare 12 new dishes. New
Zealand Herald featured the video in this
Lifestyle article in March.
1. Hackenschmidt-Rogers
[The Great Wrestling Match]
Recently preserved and uploaded
footage of legendary Estonian wrestler and strongman Georg Hackenschmidt in a
match against Joe Rogers in 1908. You can learn more about this very rare
footage in our blog
post about it. Some of the most charming moments captured in the Ngā Taonga
collection don’t come from professional films, or television and radio
broadcasts; but from amateur and home recordings that offer a window into
everyday life and culture in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Many of these can be viewed on our website by searching for
the phrase ‘Personal Record’. Be sure to select ‘View or listen online now’ to
browse the over 1,000 items readily available in the online collection.
If you know the family name
associated with the items you’d like to view, you can add this to your search
phrase. Most recently, collections of new videos captured by the Stewart and
Jaine families have been added by permission of the rights holders.Hei taunaki i te hunga rikarika ki ngā kupu hamumu o te
arero pounamu, waihoki he hokinga mahara ki te ranea toka tū moana i kaha
whawhai, i tū rangatira mō te whakarauoratanga o te reo Māori te take.
Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira trained as a teacher and
was given the nickname ‘the mother of kura kaupapa Māori’ or Māori immersion
schools. In 1956, she introduced the first Māori language class in state
schools. Katerina Mataira would go on to help set up the first total Māori immersion
school in 1985, and she co-authored the charter for kaupapa Māori schools.
Mataira wrote award-winning books for children and several novels in te reo
Māori. To acknowledge her service to te reo Katerina was made an Honorary
Doctor of the University of Waikato, shortly after she was appointed a Dame
Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for service to the Māori language.
Tāwhitia ngā kōrero rongomaiwhiti, he wāhinga kōrero, he kaponga irirangi i
rere ki te tai ki wīwī, te tai ki wāwā.
News briefs - The
Post recently published
a story about our partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery who donated 400,000
stories and programmes from the TV3/Newshub archive to Ngā Taonga.
- The
National Library is hosting an Introduction
to National Library’s services for schools webinar on three dates between
now and July. Ngā Taonga is proud to support services to schools by supplying educational
archival material from the collection.
- Our core funding agency, Manatū Taonga the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, announced
a very interesting discovery
this week.
IMAGE CREDITS
1) Screengrab of Georg Hackenschmidt from Hackenschmidt vs.
Rogers.
2) Screengrab from PERSONAL RECORD. JAINE, NC. RIVERLANDS STAY. Collection ref. F105551.
3) Cover of the children's book Nga Waituhi o Rehua by Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira. |
