Mary Tipoki — Transcript

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1. 0:00my name is Mary tepuki my maiden name
2. 0:04was mening
3. 0:06I'm from taranaki I was born and raised
4. 0:09in whangamomena which is in the central
5. 0:12taranaki Hill Country
6. 0:14my background is farming and Rural
7. 0:18living
8. 0:20although I am a trained nurse I have
9. 0:24carried rural living throughout my life
10. 0:27I have a passion for it
11. 0:30the very first time I came to Cape
12. 0:34Palace I walked up the top of the hill
13. 0:37and I remember looking out over the bay
14. 0:40and saying wow wow and wow
15. 0:46I want to spend the rest of my life here
16. 0:49it was so beautiful
17. 0:52it was a brilliant day
18. 0:55the sea was the color of your top
19. 0:58and I've never forgotten that so
20. 1:01combined with the fact that I met my
21. 1:04drop dead gorgeous husband
22. 1:07that's when
23. 1:09I made my attachment to the water Depot
24. 1:11my background in whangamona and in
25. 1:14taranaki was certainly fundamental to my
26. 1:17ability to fit in with the water Dapper
27. 1:20and to take on what Morris and I
28. 1:23eventually took on in our lives rearing
29. 1:26our family
30. 1:27isolation was never a problem Cape
31. 1:30Palace was very isolated in those days
32. 1:32there were no Bridges we had to afford
33. 1:34the rivers
34. 1:36and Morris was like my hero he would
35. 1:39drive through the rivers and the car
36. 1:41would splatter and stall in the middle
37. 1:43and he'd get out take off his toweling
38. 1:47hat pick up his friend spray can of CRC
39. 1:51wipe everything in the engine and then
40. 1:53spray it hop back in and Away we'd go
41. 1:57very basic living back in those days