Weekly Review No 148 (1944) A Thousand Pigs Make Bacon of Cookhouse Scraps: Life on a Blenheim pig farm where an old traction engine is pressed into service making swill to feed a thousand pigs a day. 01.30 New Zealanders See Vesuvius in Eruption: New Zealand troops in the 5th Army occupy the frontline near Mt Vesuvius in Italy which is erupting sending huge plumes of smoke and ash into the air. Lava has engulfed two mountain side villages and made 2000 people homeless. The Allied military government arranges relief and trucks transport the refugees to safe villages. The eruption adds hazards to flying and pilots give the crater a wide berth. 03.00 Home from Italy: A hospital ship pulls into the port of Wellington with New Zealand soldiers back from the Italian front. The film goes back to the Italian hospital that the soldiers have come from - a medical centre built by the Fascists but captured by the Allies and now called Number 3 New Zealand General Hospital. The hospital's flag has flown in North Africa, Asia and now in Italy. Thousands of patients are treated here - men from many countries and both sides in the war. Bob Milne from Te Kuiti tells the camera about the fighting at Cassino while Murrie King from Hokianga talks about the hardships suffered by the Italian people. Some of the returning soldiers have fought in eight Mediterranean countries and have been away from home for four years. 'These men have fought with courage and faith and their future lies with us." Duration 06.37