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    A friend's parents farmed down that way for a while, they used to say that land got cheaper the closer you got got to town...
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    Quote Originally Posted by MSL View Post
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    Down the end, back section up a shared drive. 14 maybe?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micky Duck View Post
    Taumarunui has CHEAP firewood,and folks go and cut thier own still....<$200 for 3 ton of mill slab cheap..... its only cold till 3 in afternoon when the fog clears till next morning......only got 14 neg7 degree frosts in a row my last year at highschool,we still rode motorbikes to school so wasnt really that bad....
    After reading that I lit the fire here, feel chilly...I was in the bush last week, 35 degrees in the afternoon and -2 the next morning

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    Quote Originally Posted by MSL View Post
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    Yep that's it a small railway house that had been relocated from Raurimu and spruced up, had mushrooms growing in the passage when we moved in, most railway guys lived on Sunshine hill.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nor-west View Post
    Yep that's it a small railway house that had been relocated from Raurimu and spruced up, had mushrooms growing in the passage when we moved in, most railway guys lived on Sunshine hill.
    Bet KiwiRail tried bumping the rent up to cover the free mushies...
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    I flatted breify in London with the Daughter of the couple that owned the Taumaranui "Bin Inn"

    Guess what the most common stolen commodity was?

    Bannana Chips!

    So next time you go down that way,bring a big bag along and you might just make some new freinds. Or you could use them to form a bait line with a deep hole at the end of it ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidGunn View Post
    One thing I noticed about Taumarunui and Taihape is the houses have great stacks of firewood at every house...there will be a reason for this...and it is that reason I wouldn't live in either place.
    Think you will find Taihape and Taumaranui firewood hoarders are mere amateurs compared to the Raetihi and Waiouru firewood professionals. Got a couple of minus 14's back in the day that kept the Waiouru plumbers frantic

    Even remember skiing from Waiouru to the top of the Desert rd behind a mog once they closed the road; a foot of snow

    But yeah, lots of those govt built (NZDF/NZFS/Education dept/NZED/MOW houses were pitifully fitted out. Solid timber frame, a log burner and a chip heater was all they had going for them. The fire's often went for 8-10 months of the year. Some only got carpeted in the late 80's.

    Now I'm sure some veteran of Taumaranui will rock up and remind me they used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by XR500 View Post
    Think you will find Taihape and Taumaranui firewood hoarders are mere amateurs compared to the Raetihi and Waiouru firewood professionals. Got a couple of minus 14's back in the day that kept the Waiouru plumbers frantic

    Even remember skiing from Waiouru to the top of the Desert rd behind a mog once they closed the road; a foot of snow

    But yeah, lots of those govt built (NZDF/NZFS/Education dept/NZED/MOW houses were pitifully fitted out. Solid timber frame, a log burner and a chip heater was all they had going for them. The fire's often went for 8-10 months of the year. Some only got carpeted in the late 80's.

    Now I'm sure some veteran of Taumaranui will rock up and remind me they used to live in a cardboard box in the middle of the road.....
    You had a cardboard box? we lived in a paper bag in a lake and got up a half hour before we went to bed, ate cold gravel for breakfast and worked 26 hours a day at mill for tuppence a year. ( apologies to the old Yorkshire scit)

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    Ahh the good old days
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    Quote Originally Posted by nor-west View Post
    You had a cardboard box? we lived in a paper bag in a lake and got up a half hour before we went to bed, ate cold gravel for breakfast and worked 26 hours a day at mill for tuppence a year. ( apologies to the old Yorkshire scit)
    You had what!? We had a condo on the Auckland Viaduct. People used to bring us warm gravel chips in a thermos bag three times a day. We'd long since traded the Mog for a Hummer to tow us down Ponsonby Street. We did it hard, never paid CGT, even contributed thousands to sew a new NZ flag for a funny small dude who sneered a lot and plaited children's' hair( forgotten his name) and you think Taumarunui is hard to live in...?
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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidGunn View Post
    One thing I noticed about Taumarunui and Taihape is the houses have great stacks of firewood at every house...there will be a reason for this...and it is that reason I wouldn't live in either place.
    I can confirm you do need plenty of fire wood in Taihape as lived there from 1967 to very recently!
    Poke fun you will but what an awesome place to grow up and bring up my 3 boys.
    Love the community and still one of the few places you dont have to lock your doors every time you leave the house!


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    Where you at now Andy?


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    Quote Originally Posted by MSL View Post
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    An of shoot valley of the Ruatiti road called Makakahi road.
    It's an hour ten from Taihape.
    Still go down a bit as mum and one boy and house still there and still on the board for the school.
    If ya down round the mountain come for a catch up!



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