High Country Legend
KNOW an elderly man who has lived and worked all his life in the South Island -high country, and who has no great opinion of Peter Newton’s books. "Musterers!" he says, "heroes! Huh!" In spite of the scepticism of the inside man most of us feel there is something special about men who, like a shepherd in the NZBS documentary, High Country, express their contempt for mountaineers, who merely walk up to the top of a hill and down again. It is a sign of the spread of the legend that this feature, heard in the National Programme on a recent Sunday, was produced in Auckland. With the help of recordings made in the Mackenzie Country it gave a vivid and lucid exposition of the seasonal routine which this rugged country has evolved and which is not exactly duplicated, so far as I know, anywhere else in the world. This documentary would, make a good radio export. The high country has inspired some good books, from the days of Butler and Lady Barker on, and some good radio features and films. Maybe an Amos from among the herdmen of Tekoa will yet descend to the plains to convict our cities. Maybe it is already
happening.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 18
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210High Country Legend New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 18
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