 The Tamure Kid wrote:Great stuff, thanks for sharing. I love reading about the exploits of people in that era - the classic Kiwi book Sea Cockies of the Manukau is from the same time period, with amazing catches by handlines etc up near Wattle Bay. My dad has a very early copy of the book, and a clipping from the paper when the writer of it died. I suspect that someone with knowledge of the NZ Herald archives could find the article from 1948. As all the old copies are held in hard copy and probably digitally now. My dad recalls visits to Whatipu in that same era (he was born in 1935) when there were large lagoons that they netted flounder from. It would have been a rugged drive out there in those days, with old cars and crappy gravel roads.
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| Tonto2 wrote: I had a copy of sea cockies but cant find it. Awesome book about the old days and the hard lives our ancestors lived. There is not to much written history of the manukau, i am fascinated by local history. |
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