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Country Life for Friday 27 March 2009

  • Intro and Regional Wrap

    9:05 PM.Facial eczema is killing cows and calves in the North Island, and in the South Island lamb and calf prices have been excellent. Audio

  • The Hobnail Boot

    9:13 PM.The Mainland Boot Company has started making traditional working boots using designs and techniques from boot maker, J.B. Frame. Audio

  • An Apple to Envy

    9:23 PM.It's apple-picking time and Enza says an extra special variety will start coming off the trees midway through next week, Envy. Audio

  • Okain's Bay

    9:27 PM.Murray Thacker's lived on Banks Peninsula all his life where he farms beef cattle on his 1700-acre ocean view property. Audio

(Below) Murry Thacker at the Okains Bay Maori & Colonial Museum. (Bottom) Boot-maker Dick Roberts at Mainland Boot's workshop in Christchurch. Photos by Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Murry Thacker at the Okains Bay museam 1

Bottmaker Dick Roberts