Biography: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard

Maurice Shadbolt in Opononi, 1956

Maurice Shadbolt filming a National Film Unit documentary about Opo, ‘the friendly dolphin’, at Opononi in 1956.

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Philip Temple. 'Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47185/maurice-shadbolt-in-opononi-1956 (accessed 4 June 2026).