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A good keen man

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A good keen man

Barry Crump’s 1960 tale of a rough and ready deer culler was very popular. Most New Zealand men still preferred to think of themselves as blokes from the backblocks.

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Penguin New Zealand

Reference: Barry Crump, A good keen man. Wellington: Reed, 1960.

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Jock Phillips, The New Zealanders – Post-war New Zealanders, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/1979/a-good-keen-man (accessed 24 June 2026).

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