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This is the poster for my NZ history assignment at school. After my previous slide show was too long, I decided to put all the information I gathered into this poster. I was supposed to present this a few weeks ago but I was sick and now the year is almost over already. I added the feature to highlight certain things so that my presentation would feel a little more interesting. If you want an explanation on what everything here is, the script for my presentation is below. Script draft: Hi, welcome to my presentation. I have made a poster representing the NZ gold rush in the form of a propaganda-style poster. I will explain everthing seen in this poster and its meaning to the gold rush. 12.xx - 14.xx Before I begin, in short, the gold rush was a period of time in NZ where gold was widley found across the land. Many different nationalities travelled to mine the resource and it was a very developmental time for the country. Anyways. The first and most prominent thing you see here is the large pounamu koru. The text below saying “Whai i te rama arahi!” translates to “Follow the guiding light!”. The reason for this is the role of Maori during the gold rush. They new mountain passes to find pounamu (greenstone), so European prospectors had Maori guides to navigate these mountain passes. The koru symbolises Maori and the glowing light represents it as a guiding light. 26.xx At the bottom of the poster, there is a large gravel base and water with lots of gold. This represents alluvial gold: A type of gold that has eroded from a hard-rock source. Rivers causing the erosion carry and wash it through gravel. The strange object on the left is a pan and shovel, which is a common tool to harvest alluvial gold. To the right is a bucket. This is a simple representation of the bucket dredge. I will explain what that is in the next segment. 36.37 Up the top right you will see a picture of a person above a large machine. That man is the chinese buisness man Choie Sew Hoy. He comisioned a gigantic bucket dredge to be built at Big Beach in the Shotover River. A bucket dredge is a machine that uses a long chain of buckets to scoop up alluvial gold off of river beds. Bucket dredges were once powered by river drove wheels, but in 1881, steam-powered versions were developed. Choie Sew Hoy’s dredge was a giant steam-powered one, with a long ladder that could lower the buckets into the river. Although he is not the single inventor of the NZ style dredge (refering to the bucket dredge), he is still credited as a major contribution to its development. That is why his picture is framed above his famous machine. 49.15 Another eye catching feature to this poster is the flags at the top left. They show the nationalities that were most prominently seen during the gold rush. They include European, British, Chinese, and Maori miners. Irish actually made up half of the miners on the West Coast. Other nationalities were seen as well like German, Scandanavian, French, Italian, and many more. 22.RR The final part of this poster I want to cover is the economy graph in the background. It shows the line rising upwards, which mirrors NZ’s economy during the gold rush. With tonnes of the yellow mineral, industrial growth was substancial with lots of infrastructure investments and even mining schools! Without the gold rush, NZ’s economy would not have developed as much as it did. The gold rush was a revolutionary period of time for NZ, and I have aimed to capture it all in a single poster. That is all I have to share. I hope you enjoyed my presentation. 35.48
