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Description

Gang Shows are revue style perfomances put on by Scouts and Girl Guides and involved singing, dancing, and skits. There have been annual performances in New Zealand from the 1950s

This image depicts senior scouts dressed in Highland battle dress addressing an English officer in an approximation of British military uniform as they perform a skit at the Gang Show 1963. The white cliffs of Dover are painted on the backdrop.

Keith Roland Hamblyn was a photographer with the Palmerston North Hospital Board for many years. In a private capacity, he documented a wide variety of public events between 1958 and the early 1970s.

Identification

Object type

Image

Relation

2014-26

Date

August 1963

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2024S_2014-26_042103_013

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Slide