Just heard from Dundee that the old boy has passed away.
RIP Scribe, Hope you continue to be a thorn in the govts side in the next life
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Just heard from Dundee that the old boy has passed away.
RIP Scribe, Hope you continue to be a thorn in the govts side in the next life
RIP Scribe, didn't know you in person, but you seemed like a great guy
1080 man.
Bugger. Met him first in at Ruahine corner in the mid 1970's when he and Will Partridge were possom trapping in there. Some big thick coon skins came out of there.
Also authored some good books.
RIP Scribe
He was a good old bugger.Had a good send off at Coromandel.
RIP Scribe.
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RIP Graeme. True battler and stubborn as all get-out. Another of the "Old School" gone sadly.
What a bugger. I was just thinking about him this morning in relation to the Ukraine as he once said to me while we were having a yarn around a camp fire about seven years back that he felt he still had one good war left in him. My condolences to his wife Julie and his family. Graeme was a principled man and larger than life and his books were all a good read. I think that much of what was to be read in “Dust off for Willie Peters” was actually a reflection of Graeme’s own life experiences and I particularly enjoyed “Beneath the Southern Cross”. Rest In Peace. Another (now fallen) old veteran to be honoured every ANZAC Day.
Really sorry to hear this news.
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Just found a photo of said occassion. It was 10th February 2015. Graeme and Mucko were deep in discussion about inventing some gizmo.
RIP Scribe
RIP Scribe
Rip , A big loss.
Just reading up again about his court case (dismissed by the judge) where he was amazingly charged with assaulting a DOC security (unlicensed) guard.
Im sure he used to post on the other (green) forum but I cannot find anything there now.
RIP Scribe
Had the privileged to meet him at one of our first Sika Show stays. I vaguely remember that 7 oz whiskey he poured me. RIP old fellow a job well done
I met Scribe on the Coro coast one time. Showed up with a fawn we were hand rearing. He was a count of knowledge, information and stories.
Tickled pink I was able to drop this old culler off some venison and woolly pork a couple of times.
Condolences to Julie and family.
In the happy hunting grounds now.
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His book is a quality read.3 weeks ago we were looking over his old haunts in the distance.He must have loved jumping into a machine after the hard slog meat hunting on the back of Mangaohane.
Scribe - So sorry to hear you are gone.
Sue and I once dropped in a number of years ago on our way back from Kennedy Bay, and you were in the bath Haha trying to sweat out a bout of the bot you'd picked up. Yeah, we didn't stick around that day but made arrangements to catch up and I was always amazed at your depth of thought. Amazing writer and loved your yarns.
May you have the campfire and the whiskey ready for us someday at that great hunting spot upstairs when we arrive to take our place.
Oh goddamit, that's a shame.
RIP Scribe.
He was a good one for sure. Condolences to his family.
Rest in peace Graham.
Go in peace Scribe, thanks for all your ethics,effort and dedication. Will miss the yarns.
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I was a year or two behind him, hunting in the Ruahines. His name was in every hut book and i enjoyed reading his entries
Rip Graham!
I had the pleasure of running into him quite often with his family in tow when he did his pilgrimage to fill his freezer at mangaohane every year.
Quite often sat down to a cup of tea or a beer and told yarns.
He used to stay at the Makirikri caravans and later at smythes hut and hunt the area.
In tribute to him the other day I actually got my hilux to a hut they used to use alot that's on doc land that they used to take the old cruiser to.
I would just about be first to get my hilux there in the last 20yrs as two private property's to go through and the track has only just been made possible to do again!
I have read his 3 books and enjoyed them all.
Bloody good fella who I will miss seeing in the scrub!
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Re his cruiser.
It turned out to be a bit too high for the garage at Thames, so the old boy cut out 2 trenches for the wheels :)
Hunted on the same block with Garry Sutton when we shot for Henry Dorrian, based at Kawhatau. Then after a stint in the scrub, we would hit the booze in the big town of Mangaweka, sleep it off at the old condemned house down the road from the Police station good days never to be repeated.
Sorry to hear about Graham. R.I.P.
@mucko here is the forum tributes,sorry you missed it mate.
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I noticed that the photo I attached was no longer available so here it is again. @mucko
Wearing Bullers. Classic.
Yes and the locals were having a raging party around a fire that first night. As I recall, one young bugger tried to suggest he would guide us for some koha but we had well and truly gapped it before he would have woken up.
Yes bloody sad to se another legend go. RIP My friend Will really miss you . Was lucky enough to live down the road from Graeme when I was a kid had plenty of good times from trapping peacocks on our farm to guided peacock shoots duck shooting . Graeme even managed to convince my mum that my dad would love the free 12 month old English pointer dog that came with the browning A5 shotgun he brought haha you needed to be their to appreciate that one dad was absolutely horrified when mum told him that it was his dog haha . Graeme thought it was the best laugh in years . Turns out Buck the English pointer once he learnt to swim after having to be chucked in the water a few times turned into the best bird dog dads ever had . Had a couple of trips to the mangaohane plateau as a late teen and in early 20s awesome trips away I’ll never forget. learnt so much from those trips . I hope who ever gets his sako vixen 223 looks after that gun and takes it hunting and continues to tip deer over with it for years to come . Miss you mate will never forget the laughs and good times we had as long as I’m alive .
Condolences to Wife Julie and daughters Kerry and Hayley .
Old Scribe woud of been 74 yesterday