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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahr View Post
    I apologise - by your Dad I actually meant your GD Ted. He was a good man. Yes, wonderful times. So much simpler.
    I would love to go back up the Toko. Too late now.
    Great memories.
    Ta for the pic. Looks bigger.
    Brings back some great memories of Ted Rout and Bernie Bowater – Bernie with the hind quarters and Ted beside his blue land rover. We did a few trips up Takapari Road following along behind the bulldozer each week or so. The road was like a cattle yard – we could walk through the leather wood like it was hardly there. Bernie and his family had a great hut up on the top near the road – on a track pushed through from the farm. They were both real good hunters – sadly Bernie had a heart attack and died at about 50ish.
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    Thanks for posting these pics mate. Ted was a real gentle fella full of 'good'.
    I used to be scared sh@tless going up over the hills above tok in that land rover. Looked alot older when I was in it.
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    I just noticed the rifle against the wagon. Wonder if its this one. He gave me his old rifle many years backName:  IMG_20211016_074855.jpg
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    Awhile ago i had another read of my Philip Holden book called Hunter by Profession , published in 1973 where he writes about his time living in Mangaweka and meat hunting in the nearby Ruahines.
    A lot of the areas he hunted like the Pourangaki, Hikurangi stream, the Kawhatau river and the Maropea behind Mokai station i am quite familiar with and the thought of carrying a whole deer carcass out from those areas on a regular basis is mind boggling , even though like a lot of blokes my age i have carried the odd deer out of the bush myself.
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