green kiwi,

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green kiwi, by Temple Sutherland. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1956. Like Jerningham Wakefield, Temple Sutherland was only nineteen when he left a comfortable family life in Scotland and came out to New Zealand to try his luck. For the first three years he worked on farms in Ruawai, Wanganui and Wairarapa, changing rapidly from a raw ‘new chum’ to an experienced farmhand who knew what had to be done on a farm and how to do it. Driving a metal-lorry for the Public Works Department was his next job and one he had to learn pretty smartly in order to save his truck and his neck. It was ‘rip, tip or bust, and no please or thank you’. He made the grade and enough money too, to buy a second-hand ‘bus’ and to set up a carrying business of his own. The Murchison earthquake drew him and a new lorry south where he soon found work with the P.W.D. again, and in another year he had saved enough money to marry ‘the girl’ up north. They settled down in