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“Manaia County had an old Irishman named Paddy Tarrant for a ranger and dog-tax
collector and if you can imagine a sack of potatoes with a head on it, riding a horse in
a kind of jog, you would have a fair idea of what old Paddy looked like.
Harold and I could recognise him a mile away on that flat country.
When he called each year, Dad would just register what dogs were in sight, and if one
of us was away with one or more dogs – too bad for Paddy. One year, Harold and I
saw him coming and as we had 5 dogs, we grabbed two each and ducked down
behind a boxthorn hedge and ran along the other side for some 5 chain where there
was a hole in the hedge so that we could watch when old Paddy left…..Registering
was only 2/6 per dog, but we had to have some fun…” (John Wilson Kenyon)

Hawera and Normanby
Star 1 Dec 1906
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James George
Kenyon imports
prize breeding stock

Hawera and Normanby
Star 11 Jan 1907
th

A garden party and
picnic at Mr.
Rutland’s farm.

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