Interesting reading indeed. Seems to be a bit of confusion in the details, such as stating Te Totara is built from split Totara, but later on saying most of the building materials were taken from one felled Rimu. The Rimu fits with Richard Whites telling of the story. Thanks for sharing
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Re: Deer culler huts Reply #3 - Aug 16th, 2013 at 8:05pm
Theres one Tararua hut, retained as representitive of the S70 forestry huts, - Mid Waiohine. all the others have been modified, i think. Hopefully, it will be repainted Orange Most appropriate, Mid waio was a favourite spot to retreat to, bg trout, nice river, good firewood, good hut, bugga all trampers and hunters.....
and also, Pararaki, in Haurangis
The permolat group on west coast are looking after a whole lot of huts, (that DOC have withdrawn from) most of them still in original design .
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Re: Deer culler huts Reply #4 - Aug 16th, 2013 at 8:23pm
Don't know when that bivvy was put there Stumpd, but it was well after my time in there. We had a tent camp on that spot. Got some photos somewhere, including one of a De Havilland Dominie dropping supplies to that camp. We had fly camps in the heads of all the Clarence sidecreeks from the Jam right up to the Palmer.
The Waikare Whenua hut was a magic spot, great library and laid on water supply! Spent a lot of time there. For some obscure reason the locals burnt it down later! , the dunny was perched on the edge of the terrace with a view right down valley---glorious place!! The Junction hut was another good one, right at the junction of the Waikare and the Whakatane, but it got shifted to where it is now, 10mins downstream right up on the top of the terrace, nowhere near as good a spot!
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Re: Deer culler huts Reply #9 - Aug 26th, 2013 at 11:38am
Don't know when that bivvy was put there Stumpd, but it was well after my time in there. We had a tent camp on that spot. Got some photos somewhere, including one of a De Havilland Dominie dropping supplies to that camp. We had fly camps in the heads of all the Clarence sidecreeks from the Jam right up to the Palmer.
Was it mostly goats you shot in there?
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Re: Deer culler huts Reply #10 - Aug 26th, 2013 at 12:32pm
About 50% goats/pigs 50% deer. More deer in the Limestone,mostly goats in the Fidget.The further up the Clarence you went the less goats, they ran out about the Tinline, Hossack had none at all. Chamois were only just colonising the area then.
The Waikare Whenua hut was a magic spot, great library and laid on water supply! Spent a lot of time there. For some obscure reason the locals burnt it down later! , the dunny was perched on the edge of the terrace with a view right down valley---glorious place!! The Junction hut was another good one, right at the junction of the Waikare and the Whakatane, but it got shifted to where it is now, 10mins downstream right up on the top of the terrace, nowhere near as good a spot!
loved that waikare whenua spot too,,pleasure to go to the bog for the view
It is much better to Hit the Animal in the right place, with a Rifle you can shoot well, then to hit it poorly with a Large Calibre..John Nosler
Yes Les....You really liked going to that dunny, didn't you. As you said "Best view in the Ureweras".
One can even shoot deer from the hut clearing if you are lucky.
Arrived there just on dark one evening, unloaded horses and put them across the wee creek behind the hut,the next morning the paddock from the hut to the end of the scrub, where the track came along the terrace, had been "rotary hoed"!!! Amazing, it wasn't done before we got there--would have seen it, pigs did it during the night in spite of us being in the hut--never heard a thing!
woke up one night in summer time to feel the hut shaking,,first thought was the horse was rubbing up against the hut,,raced out yelling obscenities at the big bugger only to see him standing down by the bottom gate,,mate murray was lol,,earthquake it was
It is much better to Hit the Animal in the right place, with a Rifle you can shoot well, then to hit it poorly with a Large Calibre..John Nosler