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VSA PACIFIC: THE WORK OF VOLUNTEER SERVICE ABROAD IN FIJI, WESTERN SAMOA AND TONGA

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Document of the works of various Volunteer Service Abroad workers from New Zealand working in the pacific. Considers the plight of poverty stricken Fijian Indians living in shacks outside of Suva. VSA architect Alwyn O’Connor helps with the planning and ultimate construction of cheap housing for the dispossessed. Helen O’Connor works as a radiographer in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital....
Display date:
1969
Location:
New Zealand/Aotearoa
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MovingImage
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Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Contributors:
Cameraman: Berend Neervoot
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