Thread: Driven shoot, Northland-style

Shenstone! Now that's a blast from the past.
When I was a teenager I used to spend holidays there. It was shenstone development block back then 400 acres of pasture 1000 or more of gum swamp and then sand dunes to 90 mile beach.
Wally Wymer was the manager, ( early 70s) he had an old maori lady Mrs Abraham as house keeper, she used to go home to te hapua on weekends leaving a huge pot of stew.
We had the first true 4wd tractor a same in the area and often got called out to pull tourist busses out of the tepaki stream.
Pigs were the problem then and where few days even over lambing there would be guys hunting.
Good luck, as i recall the occasional pig dog went missing, most were probably killed by pigs but some probably took a liking to living alone.
I still remember the phone no after all these years.