Political considerations delayed the start of my formal education. Mr Forbes, I understand, was having trouble balancing the budget in 1933, on account of the Depression....
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I once bought a truck load of lambs, - refugees from a Hawkes Bay drought. I don’t think they had seen green grass before in their short lives, and it was a pleasure to...
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I had come to Suva on business. The town had much changed but I found a park for my car and headed down the street. I hadn’t gone far when a very deep voice behind me...
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Our generation of Dales was almost devoid of females. My cousins were Jack and Jim and Tom, and Terry and Doug, and my brothers were Alan, Barry and Dion. We have done better...
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There can be something pathetic about inheritors of great wealth. Doug Meyers plaintively trying to bring us to an appreciation of the awesome responsibilities that beset the...
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