| Weekly Review No 257 (1946) Naenae Co-Op Shops: Residents in the state housing suburb at Naenae, Wellington have built their own co-operative stores. The butchers and the grocers shops are now open for business. Most of the building work was done by returned servicemen under the Rehabilitation Scheme and the shops are staffed entirely by returned men. 01.15 Auckland, Farewell to Achilles: At the end of her commission, the New Zealand Navy cruiser Archilles leaves Auckland for the United Kingdom where she will revert to the Royal Navy. Officers and men line the rails - a proud company of a proud ship - and famous for the Battle for the River Plate in 1939. 02.20 Ohakea, Mr Nash Returns: A British Lancastrian lands at Ohakea airbase with Finance Minister Walter Nash and Treasury officials home from trade talks in London. Mr Nash is greeted by Prime Minister Peter Fraser and talks on the tarmac about his trip. 03.30 East Coast District Nurse: Te Araroa on East Cape is the main town in one of the wildest and inaccessible parts of New Zealand. But the grey car of the district nurse is seen even on the roughest roads and riverbeds as she does her rounds serving the local population which is 90% Maori. She often completes journeys on horseback. The nurse makes sure that bad cases of tuberculosis are isolated in separate accommodation. She is active in maternity care and, at the local school, she helps bath the children. One of her jobs is to make sure that disabled children get proper surgical boots. She lectures in mothercraft and arranges cheap and healthy lunches for school children. After work, she runs a pre-natal clinic in her own home. Once a month she sets out on horseback for a tiny school many miles up the coast where she inspects teeth and tonsils and makes sure the children are adequately clothed. "This is 1946 but district nurses in areas such as this have all the spirit that the pioneers every had." Duration 08.05
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