Thread: Venison meat hunting in NZ in the past

Originally Posted by Woody

Ha ha . Yep; typical. I tgink I got Hautapu wrong, may be hangaroa, was ba k of waipa station.
Me and Ron Twyman shot a lot of goats ba k of his dads station just shy of ruakituri bush. We used pack horses to get them down to homestead and Rons dad would truck them down to wairoa to sell. About 50 each weekend. All was fine until one monday Ron gets a ring in napier woolstore from his daf. Theyre not buying now, so Ive dumped them in the bottom paddock. You two young buggerd better come up next weekend and start digging! Blimey, diggin that hole by hand took us all next weekend. Stinkin bloody things. Gave up goat shooting after that episode.

Yes would be Waimaha station thats where the Hangaroa comes out of Te Urewera a lot of early native logging went on in the big basin in the Hangaroa that was NZFS land