Thread: Dustoff for Willie Peters

Originally Posted by Raging Bull

Missed out on the Lions (charity - Ronald McDonald house) 4WD trip earlier this year, too many other buggers had signed up, it went through Otupae, Mangohane, Erewhon, Black Hill and Ohinewairua.

Apparently Mangohane was the first sheep and beef farm in New Zealand to sell for more than $1 million (Warren Plimmer and Jim Bull brought it for around $1.3 million back in 1973... big money back then). I did a bit of work on Bulls other farms, never got up to Mangohane.

I remember the sale, we were out the back trapping and hunting then...We were also up there when this mob from the lions club came through on their bikes...I couldnt believe how many of them there was