Jumped in at #39 this week from the popularity of the Film "Boy", Making it into the charts 3 times in 3 decades, I wonder if the Patea maori club gets any royalties from this song as their clubrooms are looking rather shabby.
Patea once a thriving town in South Taranaki, now not so, Who here has rellies living there and who had family living there in its heyday
This was in the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLUygS0IAQ&feature=playe
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Patea is a ghost town, or at least it was when we passed through about 5 days before xmas
my grandfather used to work there in the 70's. i remember he used to have a morris 1100 car, and i used to travel with him from hawera to patea to the garage and morris dealership there for a service and a warrant. in the mornings with the freezing works going, in the eyes of a 7 year old it was like mayhem! people everywhere, so busy!
the main road was narrower too :-)
used to stop of at the factory butchers, pick up a forequarter or a bag of pork bones real cheap.
Has anybody on here seen the film 'Pallet on the Floor'. story by local author th late Ronald Hugh Morrison. Check it out, its good! Shot on location in and around Patea with shots of the Factory in its heyday!
if anyone wants the video in mp4 format http://sites.google.com/site/clipone/home/poi-e-video
Here's a link for a clip and interview from the current group...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQdvZ0lTVU4
Awesome song, possibly the words to which are as well known to Kiwis as Pokarekare ana!
great childhood memory... esp. the bleached hair guy up on the waka busting his moves.
I used to work with some of those older ldies in the group. About 4 of them where sisters or sister in laws. Lovely people who couldn't do enough for you. Just watched the interview and recognised 3 of them. Wonderfula nd thank you for the link.
my nana lived there .Died 1980.up till then,i spent all my holidays there with her.Had cousins at whenakura?? from a farming community.I even worked in the local tearooms during Christmas break.Havent been back since nana died,but need to go back and check it out
This was the first time ever a Maori song had been released for the charts without any english verses. Well done Dalvanius and Patea.
Yes, patea maori club still performing all over the place. did a live performance at the local cinema in hawera on thursday for the opening of the movie. past members promote the new ones but are still very much the backbone of the club.
could be rambling here but i'll share it with yous anyway. grew up in Hawera and my fondest memories is of my grandfather up early at 4.00am getting prepared to go to work down in Patea. i'd be up too having breakfast of porridge and cream, big cuppa tea reading Commando comics. Nana would make him up a lunch of barracuda bread sammies with hogget and tomato, and a bottle of tea, and it all went into a battered old leather doctors bag. He rode a BSA superrocket, unbaffled silencers, and the roar it would make in the early morning was hell terrific; you could hear him from one end of South Road in town to the other.
somehow the neighbours never complained..
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