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A keeper’s life

This National Film Unit Weekly review of 1947 evokes the lonely life of a keeper at The Brothers lighthouse, off the north-east tip of the South Island. The routine weather reports are broken only by the company of seagulls and tuatara lizards.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kawanatanga
Reference: Weekly Review 305

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Helen Beaglehole. 'Lighthouses', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 26-Nov-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/lighthouses/4/3