Rowley Habib A New Voice in New Zealand Writing Rowley Habib, whose poem ‘The Raw Men’ is published elsewhere in this issue of ‘Te Ao Hou’, comes from Oruanui, a township—‘practically a ghost village now’—twelve miles north of Taupo on the old north-south road. He says that when he was born, in 1933, Oruanui was a timber-milling place; his father owned the only shop there at the time. ‘It was a post office as well as a general store, and for a while my father ran a taxi service as well. You can imagine that it was the hub of our little settlement. People—it seemed the whole of the village, kids and grown-ups—used to come down in the evenings to do their shopping or get their mail, and there used to be a great din. People standing about talking, lingering on—some of them were fairly isolated and it was their chance to catch up on local gossip.’
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Te Ao Hou, June 1964, Page 14
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