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Kōrero: The New Zealanders

Extract from Me and Gus

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During the interwar years writers started to explore the distinctive life and language of New Zealanders. One was the Taranaki writer Frank Anthony, who here tells an amusing tale of ‘baching’ with his mate, Gus. The sketch by Nevile Lodge is from a 1951 edition of Me and Gus.

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Reference: Frank S. Anthony, Me and Gus. Auckland: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1951.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – ‘Where Britain goes, we go’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/document/1969/extract-from-me-and-gus (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2015.