‘Close Up’ goes to remote parts of China

Press, 9 May 1984, Page 15

‘Close Up’ goes to remote parts of China

Television New Zealand’s documentary programme, “Close Up,” will present four programmes on China over the next four weeks. The programmes were filmed by a TVNZ crew led by director, Anna Cottrell and reporter, Alison Pair. They have just returned from the trip, during which they visited some of the remotest parts of China to film the daily life of a rural family and also to look at a model farm in which two New Zealand families are living and working with the Chinese to modernise Chinese agriculture. The area in which they are living is one which had hitherto been used by nomadic shepherds for summer grazing — a traditional style of agriculture which goes back thousands of years. Other items covered by the team will include China’s one-child family policy, an interview with

Rewi Alley, and a look at daily life in cities and interviews with foreign correspondents working in Beijing. Pay cut? Also on “Close Up” tomorrow night will be a report by Martyn Bates on the ?8 a week pay increase. Despite tax changes and the $8 a week pay increase, thousands of lower-paid workers seem to have taken a pay cut in real terms, says TVNZ. Martyn Bates investigates why only those further up the pay scale are “ahead of the play.” An item scheduled for “Close Up” last week is now expected to be screened tomorrow night. It is about computer “hackers” who are using personal computers to break into commercial data bases. “Close Up” is screened on One on Thursdays.