That the "boys of the old brigade" can still hold their own with the younger men of the present day was instanced rather strikingly last week at Poro-o-toroa (says tho "King Country Chronicle"), when two bushnien, whose joint, ages totalled nearly a hundred years, chopped out a 200-aere block of' standing bush in the same time as three considerably younger men felled 100 acres of bush of exactly the same description. ■ ,
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17981, 26 January 1924, Page 11
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