Thread: Manawatu Gorge Slip

@Reindeer There was a big camp down Andersen road in Carterton, I managed Fletchers mill, the old Booth mill, there in the 80s. When they left they pushed all their gear into a hole and buried it, we had a few 44 gallon drums marked USA in the mill. There was a fuel dump at the end of Greytown where the road forks to Featherston and Martinborough, my old man and his brother in law nearly got caught pinching petrol from there one night, dad drove the Featherston straights with no headlight on to get away. My mum used to tell me of a rolled jeep at pee point on the Rimutakas, where she and dad stopped to assist, the GIs were OK and they helped dad get all of the petrol from the jeep into his Austin Seven before their retrieval gang arrived.