Nevile Lodge’s cartoon of Jim Henderson with a microphone in hand appeared in the book version of ‘Open country’. ‘Open country’ was a regular radio show in the 1950s and 1960s, which broadcast short stories from rural New Zealand. The sound file is drawn from episode 60 in which various country folk talked about the uses of a stockwhip.
Transcript
[Sounds of farmer whistling dogs].
Open country, people in places over time.
[More whistling and sound of whip being cracked]
That's a West Coast butcher, cracking his whip. We'll hear about stock whips from him first. He's Sam Stewart, butcher of Kumara, Westland. He's yarning with Hoppy Owen. And then about making stock whips and that comes from an Auckland citizen, a stock whip maker for 60 years. And finally we hear about a couple of farmers who got stuck into each other and had a scrap with stock whips.
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Reference: 21974
Image: Jim Henderson, ed., Open country: people and places out of town. Wellington: Reed, 1965, p. viii.
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