/taxonomy/term/459/0 en /media/video/children-meet-the-queen-athletic-park <h2>Film clip: children gathering to meet the Queen</h2> <h3>Still shots and description</h3> <p> <p>The Royal couple are standing in the back of a specially converted jeep as it drives past thousands of children gathered in Athletic Park. As their car passes the children they all swarm en masse to the other side of the field to get another look as the jeep turns a corner.</p> /media/video/children-meet-the-queen-athletic-park#comments Royal Visit of 1953-54 athletic park children royalty wellington video Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1799 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /media/video/royals-on-the-west-coast <h2>Film Clip: the Royals on the West Coast </h2> <h3>Still shots and description</h3> <p> <p>The royal aeroplane lands in Westport. Scenes of crowds welcoming the Royal couple. Then we cut to scenes of the Royal train leaving for Christchurch via Arthur&#39;s Pass.</p> <h3>Commentary:</h3> <p>&#39;Main outlet for the Buller coalfields, Westport gives a real mining community welcome. There they are for everyone to see, bless &#39;em. At every wayside station the children wait in loyalty and excitement. The Queen is journeying from the West Coast to Canterbury, right across the South Island - a magic carpet for every watching child.&#39;</p> /media/video/royals-on-the-west-coast#comments Royal Visit of 1953-54 arthurs pass royalty trains westport video Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1852 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /media/video/the-royal-couple-at-patea <h2>Film clip: The royal couple at Patea</h2> <h3>Still shots and description</h3> <p> </p> <p>The Royal couple and Prime Minister Sidney Holland walking among the people of Patea.</p> <div class="panorama-caption"> <p>This silent colour film was made using an 8mm camera by amateur cameraman Mr Edwin Nitschke. We are most grateful to Mr Nitschke&#39;s family for making this available to us.</p> /media/video/the-royal-couple-at-patea#comments Royal Visit of 1953-54 patea royalty video Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1792 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /media/video/children-welcome-queen-at-forbury-park <h2>Film clip: children&#39;s welcome at Forbury Park, Dunedin </h2> <h3>Still shots and description</h3> <p> <p>Chinese dragons and clowns entertain and thousands of children in the stands and on the grounds welcome the Royal couple in Forbury Park.</p> <h3>Commentary:</h3> <p>&#39;Forbury Park, our children await, and we have our own way of keeping them amused. Orderly lines, mark you, well that&#39;s what we told &#39;em, but who could stop our bairns from playing personal tribute to the Queen? - ach, this is the children&#39;s hour. They sweep across the park like the blaeberries in a highland wind. It&#39;s a true game of devotion which blows around them now.&#39;</p> /media/video/children-welcome-queen-at-forbury-park#comments Royal Visit of 1953-54 children dunedin royalty video Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1831 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /politics/vice-regal-visiting <h2>The Governor-General comes to town</h2> <div class="mini-pic-right"> <p><a href="/?q=node/1866"></a></p> <p class="caption"><a href="/?q=node/1866">The Cobhams arrive in the Cook Islands</a></p> </div> <p>&#39;To be invisible is to be forgotten,&#39; constitutional theorist Walter Bagehot (1826&#8211;77) warned. &#39;To be a symbol, and an effective symbol, you must be vividly and often seen.&#39; For the King or Queen&#39;s New Zealand representative, the Governor-General, that meant hitting the road.</p> Viceregal visiting governor-general royalty Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 1871 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/royal-visit-of-1953-54 <h2>To see the Queen</h2> <div class="mini-pic-right"> <a href="/?q=node/1790"></a> <p class="caption"> <a href="/?q=node/1790">Queen Elizabeth at the Auckland races</a> </p> Royal Visit of 1953-54 queen elizabeth royal royalty Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 893 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/royal-visit-of-1953-54/itinerary <div class="joomla_content"> <h2>Auckland to Milford Sound (23 Dec 1953- 31 Jan 1954)</h2> <h3>AUCKLAND, 1953</h3> <h3>Wednesday, December 23 </h3> /culture/royal-visit-of-1953-54/itinerary#comments Royal Visit of 1953-54 queen elizabeth royal royalty touring Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 895 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/royal-visit-of-1953-54/the-popularity-of-the-tour <h2>Why was the 1953-54 Royal Visit such a huge event for New Zealanders?</h2> <ul> <li>This was the first time a reigning monarch had set foot in New Zealand. Previous royal visitors had either been sons or brothers of the monarch - Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in 1869, Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York in 1901, Prince of Wales in 1920, Duke and Duchess of York in 1927, Duke of Gloucester in 1934-5.</li> <li>Hopes for a visit by the monarch had been raised over the previous decade: <ul> <li> There had been discussions of a visit by George VI in 1940, but the war prevented this.</li> <li> A detailed itinerary was prepared for a tour by the king in March 1949, but he fell ill.</li> <li> A shortened tour was planned for May 1952, and when the king again fell ill it was decided Princess Elizabeth would come instead. But at the first stop on this tour, in Africa, the young princess learned of her father&#39;s death and she returned home.</li> </ul> </li> <li>The Queen&#39;s coronation in June 1953 heightened interest in royalty in New Zealand.</li> <li>The state was heavily involved in overseeing preparations for the tour and ensuring its success. Internal Affairs were the main organisers, but Tourist and Publicity, Defence, Railways (which supplied the special royal trains), Works, Maori Affairs, Police and the Education departments all put enormous energies into the tour. </li> <li>The war had strengthened New Zealanders&#39; sense of their relationship with Britain. Where Britain went, New Zealand went. New Zealand&#39;s trade was overwhelmingly with Britain (67.5 of our exports in 1953, 56% of our imports), and British people were our most important immigrants (65% in 1953-54).</li> <li>By 1953 New Zealand had recovered from depression and war. Indeed the boom in wool prices created by the Korean War had carried New Zealand to the second highest standard of living in the world. There was a general satisfaction with New Zealand life and the Royal Visit became a way of presenting this modern paradise to the world.</li> </ul> Royal Visit of 1953-54 communism queen elizabeth royal royalty Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 892 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/royal-visit-of-1953-54/the-queen-and-the-maori-people <h2>The Queen and the Maori people</h2> <p>For many Maori the Royal Visit raised important issues about their place in New Zealand.</p> <ul> <li> One reception or many?: Pakeha New Zealanders wished to show off to the Queen and to the world the fact that New Zealand &#39;had the best race relations in the world&#39;. By this they meant that Maori participated fully in New Zealand&#39;s British way of life. Maori culture provided no more than some exotic colour to the country&#39;s landscape. Pakeha administrators were not interested in showing off distinct tribal differences. So initial plans for the tour proposed one Maori reception at Rotorua under the control of the Arawa. This differed from the plans for the 1949 tour when five provincial Maori gatherings had been planned. As E. B. Corbett, the Pakeha Minister of Maori Affairs, noted, &#39;So far as the Queen herself is concerned they will just be the Maori people. She will not be concerned to know from what tribes they have come.&#39; When Maori expressed concern at this blurring of tribal difference, there was a concession that token Maori representatives could be present at all local receptions (which usually meant one or two), but there was still wide criticism of the plans.</li> <li> Waitangi: Maori were very critical of the omission of Waitangi from the itinerary. Faced with &#39;difficulties from a racial angle&#39;, it was agreed to add a visit to Waitangi; but it was not conceived as a full Maori welcome so much as a brief visit to a historic place with both Maori and Pakeha involvement in the brief ceremony.</li> <li>Rotorua: Maori objected to the brief time allowed for the main welcome at Rotorua and the fact that only 200 official visitors from other tribes would be invited. In the end the time was extended and accommodation provided for 3500 from other iwi.</li> <li>Turangawaewae: Turangawaewae was the marae of the Maori King at Ngaruawahia. The King Movement had been the centre of opposition to Pakeha authority in the New Zealand Wars. But under the leadership of Te Puea the Waikato people had sought to affirm their loyalty to the Empire and her soldiers had fought in World War 2. Te Puea had long hoped that royalty might visit Turangawaewae to signal this reconciliation and a visit was included in the plans for the 1949 tour. But Ngaruawahia was not included in the 1953 itinerary; and although the Queen and Duke were scheduled to drive past the gateway to the marae, the Government resisted all appeals to include a visit. Despite the rebuffs the King movement practised their waiata and printed a programme. It was not until the morning of the event on 30 December that a decision was taken for the monarch to pay a visit. She had intended to stay for three minutes and to do no more than get out of the car. But the sight of a pathway of mats edged with red, white and blue flowers proved irresistible. The Queen and Duke walked past the black-robed kuia, garlands of fern in their hair, and entered Mahinarangi, the carved meeting house. There was singing, and chanting and haka, and at the end 100 warriors in two war canoes dipped their paddles in the Waikato River. The whole visit took 17 minutes.</li> </ul> <div class="featurebox"> <h4>Tangiwai - weeping waters</h4> <p class="left"><a href="/?q=node/1536"></a></p> Royal Visit of 1953-54 queen elizabeth royal royalty tangiwai turangawaewae Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 891 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz /culture/the-1920s/1920 <h2>The Prince of Wales tours NZ</h2> <div class="mini-pic-right"><a href="/node/14857"> </a></div> The 1920s 1920s arthur conan doyle olympics royalty wanganui Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 +1200 14808 at http://www.nzhistory.net.nz