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I believe that they lost their charitable status before the 2017 election as they were considered to be a political organisation. Seems it got restored after the election.

I have a hut in the Rimutakas - we went through a big battle with DOC but now have licences until 2050

Suggest you contact the Orongorongo Club (orongorongoclub.org.nz) they will be able to give...

I have a 2008 Surf with a 4.2L petrol - I am getting similar consumption of around 11L per 100km. Had it since 2015, done about 50000km and the only thing that I have had to do is replace one...

We had exactly the same experience. Calibrated the new one yesterday.

Few years ago we had a couple sitting in a cabbage tree overlooking our yard with the outside lights shining. There were heaps of puriri attracted by the lights and the moreporks were having a great...

Bought my Gevarm .22 on decimal changeover day for 50 pounds, still have the original police gun certificate. Still have it and occasionally use it. I have kept it as it has a really grained walnut...

Neighbour bought a service station a few years ago.

Client brought a quad wheel with a puncture to be fixed - no problem says neighbour - does the fix and inflates, next minutes there is a god...

I bought mine in 1969, still in use and has never had a problem with water or anything else and it has had a fairly hard life. One thing to be aware of is the tube diameter which is 26 mm - not a lot...

Was in Scone Creek Hut back in about '68 or '69 and a helicopter arrived piloted by Goodwin McNutt with Peter Harker along for the ride. Peter was wearing carpet slippers and had nothing bu a radio...

Bought my first rifle, a new Gevarm A7 on Decimal Changeover day for $50. Next came a .303 in '68, but I don't recall the price. Followed by a BRNO ZKK601 .243 in '69 for $179, Pecar scope for it was...

I always cut off any fat and toss it to the dogs before mincing.

I ran though about 50 kgs a couple of weeks ago and cut off around 3 or 4 kgs of fat.

A few years ago I put a Timney trigger into my K98 8x57 and bought some cheap ammo from Belmont. The cheap ammo mostly did not have sufficient firing pin strike, all sporting ammo worked fine so I...

Not seeing many deer at the moment, but in a 1km walk with the dog last night I counted 73 rabbits

Have a lifestyle block about 10 km as the crow flies from parliament. A couple of months ago we counted 52 in paddocks over the final 1 km to home. Son counted 40 in 3 neighbouring properties about 3...

Can't say I can ever remember seeing any reptiles, but then the same applies to feral cats. Through the 70's I would have been spending over 100 days a year in the area so if they were prevalent I...

You may well be right.

There seem to have been plenty of birds around at the time this research was being done. After the station was closed the area was bombed with 1080 - now there are bugger...

Thanks for fixing the link, I couldn't figure it out.

I am not suggesting that feral cats are not a problem, I put it up as a matter of interest. Cats in the area the research was done are not...

For anyone interested the following link documents research done in the Orongorongo Valley back in the late 1970's
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Watch out if using an air pistol. Tried it once about sixty years ago, pellet ricocheted off the possum's head and got my mate in the ear lobe. Never tried again.

Not a bad example of a backyard Wainuiomata stag


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Two years ago my 3 year old huntaway caught his right back leg while jumping a fence, ripped the leg right out of the hip joint, $5500 later in vets fees he was good as new, still running at 50kmph...