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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 May 1928, Page 4

GOOD PUBLICITY.

TOM HEENEY’S BLLTHPLACE. FILM MADE FOR AMERICA. SPECIAL TO THE STABWELLINGTON, May 17. Tom Heeney is to furnish the subject of the latest “Stunt” by the New Zealand Government publicity ofiice. Outside the ring, as well as inside, Feeney is to be used to gain attention for the Dominion. , The move made by the Publicity Office is the taking of a -series of shots which are to form a 100 feet film or Tom Heeney’s birthplace. Two'cameramen have just completed a visit to Gisborne for the purpose, and the film is now being edited. It will leave New Zealand on the 22nd of this month and. will go straight to New York, where arrangement 'will be made to release it all over the United States before the coining fight for the world s heavyweight boxing championship. Scenes about Gisborne, Heeney s mother and father at their home, and the barn where Heeney learned to fight form sequences in the picture. The whole enterprise was conducted so quietly that residents of Gisborne mistook the cameramen for Americans.