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School on the radio

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The Correspondence School, set up as a distance-teaching institution for country children, broadcast dedicated radio sessions from 1937. These children are listening to the end-of-year session in 1960. Correspondence School radio broadcasts ceased in 1997.

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Archives New Zealand - Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Hill Country. National Film Unit, 1960

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural media – Radio, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/18030/school-on-the-radio (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 1 March 2009.