close this book"I knew every single person in that school" : country life in the 1950s
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School

Talks about Taniwha school, which was predominantly Maori. Details growing up with the Maoris.

"At one stage there was a tremendous storm and the power was off for ... something like three days and we had a herd of cows to be milked and the

Maoris, a collection of them from down on the Marae came up and they helped

us milk all these cows for every milking twice a day by hand and if it hadn't a been for them I don't know just quite what would have happened"

Says they had draught horses no tractors.