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The road into our house came over a traffic bridge, downstream quite a distance. You then came back up the main road to the school, the railway station and a small store. We had a black horse called Dick and a very cranky Shetland pony — I can’t remember its ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Rightly or wrongly, Mum had very firm opinions about her two brothers. Uncle Ian could do no wrong — and I do bear his name. However he was farming in Tauranga long before Dorothy and Cliff had us kids, so we had nothing to do with him. On the ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Most of the photos on this page come from Dorothy . ~ Ian § Some of the differences between the Baughs and McCarrolls were pretty fundamental. Jack and Annie had a quarter acre section, for example, whereas Hugh and Vi had — I don’t know — a thousand ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next The AMR was part of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade (NZMR), which was in turn part of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. The AMR was considered an elite unit and at the outbreak of war, with competition among volunteers to join its ranks, its strength was twenty-six officers, ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Northern Advocate, 6th May 1943High tribute to the work of Mr. David McCarroll as Child Welfare Officer in Northland for nearly 25 years was expressed by magistrates, police, and the Bar at a special sitting this morning of the Whangarei Children’s Court, held to farewell Mr. McCarroll on ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Contents § In this photo a team of Kauri bushmen pose with the massive tree they’ve just felled. They’ve built special staging so the two “cross-cutters” can stand high enough up the trunk to work the saw. Another man on top of the log drives wedges to keep ... Read more
Previous | Contents | § Transcript of Hugh’s 1950s radio talks, # 4 In the very early days, the only method of transporting the logs was by water. This meant that only the very handiest of timber was worked. That is to say, only trees growing near a gully or stream would be ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next § Transcript of Hugh’s 1950s radio talks, # 3 The number of beasts in a bullock team was usually governed by the job it had to do. For instance, there is the breaking out team and the skid road team or wagon team as the case may be. The ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next § Transcript of Hugh’s 1950s radio talks, # 2 In my last talk, I discussed the establishment of a bush camp and supplying it—building a shanty, packing in supplies, and so on. In this one, I want to tell you something about the felling of the trees themselves. When ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next § Transcript of Hugh’s 1950s radio talks, # 1 The heyday of the Kauri bushmen ended in about 1914. Before that time large camps, some more permanent than others, were operating in the bush throughout Northland, and it is about the men in these camps that I’m ... Read more