Thread: Another Trip to the Range

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings,
This had me interested so I fished out my copy of NZS3604:1984 and it uses the word dwang so nogging, not to be confused with noggin, seems to have dropped out of use by then. I do remember it from specifications from the 1960's and 70's.
Another bit of useless trivia from GPM.

I left CHCH in 1983 for the north island and it would have after I headed north I heard them called nogs for the first time. Ran a commercial construction business 2009-14 in Wellington and am sure thats what our PM’s and SM’s called them.