Ploughboy To Premier 1923

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Item title reads - Ploughboy to Premier. Right Honourable Mr Massey visits his birthplace which he left 53 years ago as a ploughboy, returns as Premier of New Zealand. Ulster.

Mr Massey walks with his entourage away from a building which could be a chapel, he points to something off-screen....

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
24123
Sort Number:
G 1040
Time in/Out:
01:21:55:00 / 01:22:39:00
Canister:
G 1040
Film ID:
324.20
Issue Date:
13/12/1923

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