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Story: Rural media

Me and Gus

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Nevile Lodge drew the illustrations for a 1951 edition of Me and Gus, comic sketches of farming life by Frank Anthony. Readings from the book that year were very popular with radio listeners in both town and country. Listen to an excerpt from ‘Gus buys a bull’.

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Reference: 34173

Image: Drawing by Nevile Lodge in Frank S. Anthony, Me and Gus. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1965, p.69

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Nancy Swarbrick, Rural media – Radio, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/natural-sounds/18031/me-and-gus (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Nancy Swarbrick, published 22 August 2013.