new zealand travel guide book Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/new-zealand-travel-guide-book Sun, 03 Sep 2017 16:38:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 New Zealand Travel http://toursmaps.com/new-zealand-travel.html http://toursmaps.com/new-zealand-travel.html#respond Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=243761 I got my discharge in Wellington, New Zealand, and drew £9 in wages for the three weeks’ work. My ticket was endorsed ‘Very good’ for sobriety and two other virtues. Ned Holmes, my New Zealand soldier friend, got me a job at ten shillings a week with the manager of a farm outside Masterton, belonging to his father. Old Maxwell, the manager, was a big chubby-cheeked man, with a bushy moustache, and was considered a great man with sheep. I lived with the family, which consisted of Maxwell, his wife, and their daughter, a sweet little thing of about seventeen,

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/new-zealand-travel.html/feed 0 New Zealand Guide for Tourist http://toursmaps.com/new-zealand-guide-for-tourist.html http://toursmaps.com/new-zealand-guide-for-tourist.html#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2017 21:04:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=243677 One of the first excitements at the Old Ride was a visit from HMS Eclipse, a cruiser training ship for Osborne cadets. We played cricket against them and, after dark, they turned their searchlight on to the school from where they were anchored in Bournemouth Bay, and I thought this was thrilling. From my dormitory window I could see the Old Harry rocks at Swanage, and I wonder what I would have thought if a fortuneteller had told me that fifty years later I should be navigating Stormvogel in the dark to an anchorage near these rocks so that a

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