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Country Life for Friday 29 July 2016

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  • Polaris Big Four Hunting Competition - Part One
  • Polaris Big Four Hunting Competition_ Part two
  • Colin Cox_ Pioneer Deer Farmer Part 6
  • Regional Wrap
  • Polaris Big Four Hunting Competition - Part One

    rural Bay of Plenty
    The Big Four Competition

    9:18 PM.Every June the Polaris Te Puna Big Four hunting competition is held in Bay of Plenty. It's an event where four people hunt for four days to collect four species: a boar, stag, trout and pheasant. The… Read more Audio, Gallery

  • Polaris Big Four Hunting Competition_ Part two

    rural Bay of Plenty
    Hunting dog

    9:38 PM.Day three of the competition and it was time to try trout fishing on Lake Rotoiti. Four hours of bobbing around didn't net a thing. Over most of the week it poured with rain but luckily Friday morning… Read more Audio

  • Colin Cox_ Pioneer Deer Farmer Part 6

    rural farming
    Colin Cox Pioneer Deer Farmer and Possum Hunter

    9:32 PM.Colin Cox was involved in the very beginnings of deer farming in New Zealand and with the development of possum fibre for use in clothing. He's written a memoir which Country Life has turned into a… Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    Ponding

    9:05 PM.It's poured with rain virtually everywhere in the North Island this week, except eastern Wairarapa which is still desperate for rain, and early lambing farms on the Waimea Plains are having the worst… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 22 July 2016
  • Next Episode: Friday, 5 August 2016
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