Launched and hosted by The Hon. Jack Elder, Minister of Internal Affairs
and Civil Defence
THE GLOBAL DANCE IN ACTION AT THE LAUNCH
"...Throughout
1999 groups all over New Zealand will be preparing to shout a Millennium
Welcome and Good Morning in many languages around the world since we
will be 'first to the future'..."
Excerpt from Hon. Jack Elder's speech of Welcome at
Parliament
Children jubilantly burst out from under the
parachute, then bounce a world globe on it, while others run around
waving the koru flag, somersaulting, performing cartwheels... The music
stops several times so everyone shouts greetings in many languages to
welcome the world to the New Beginning.