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Ch 1. Growing up in NZ War Years

Ch 1. Growing up in NZ War Years

INTRODUCTION I was born in Wellington New Zealand in 1939 and later that year on 5th September, New Zealand’s first labour prime minister, Michael Joseph Savage, got wind of my arrival and was so depressed that he rang Neville Chamberlain and they both decided to...
Prologue: A Tribute to Working Dogs

Prologue: A Tribute to Working Dogs

A long time ago, Gronk was sitting by a fire outside his cave. He was aware that a four-legged carnivore had been lurking rather too closely around his camp. On a whim, he threw the bone he had been gnawing. That moment was the dawning of a permanent bond between man...