A sight once common in New Zealand country areas when those who wanted work had to walk from job to job” — an illustration from a new edition of John A. Lee’s classic account, “Roughnecks, Rolling Stones, and Rouseabouts.” The book was based on talks that Lee gave in the early days of radio in New Zealand. This edition (Penguin, $24.95) includes a rich variety of illustrations of early New Zealand characters on the road, as well as selections of early swagger literature. A swagger’s comments in the “New Zealand Graphic” from 1893 deserves being recalled: “Which is the most manly, I should like to know, to go and look for work or to pester an overburdened Government to make it for you? People may run down swaggers, but there are two sides to every yarn, I say.”
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Press, 22 July 1989, Page 23
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137A sight once common in New Zealand country areas when those who wanted work had to walk from job to job” — an illustration from a new edition of John A. Lee’s classic account, “Roughnecks, Rolling Stones, and Rouseabouts.” The book was based on talks that Lee gave in the early days of radio in New Zealand. This edition (Penguin, $24.95) includes a rich variety of illustrations of early New Zealand characters on the road, as well as selections of early swagger literature. A swagger’s comments in the “New Zealand Graphic” from 1893 deserves being recalled: “Which is the most manly, I should like to know, to go and look for work or to pester an overburdened Government to make it for you? People may run down swaggers, but there are two sides to every yarn, I say.” Press, 22 July 1989, Page 23
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