Pukemiro and my grandparents

 

Pukemiro

 

My Grandparents on both sides of our family immigrated to Pukemiro in New Zealand. I recently found a photograph of my Great Grandmother on my Dads side. This was a surprise. I had never seen a picture of her and I also do not know a great deal about her.

I do know she had five boys and one was my grandfather who I adored. As stated earlier my grandparents moved to New Zealand around 1927 from Christchurch Hampshire in England. ...

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Pukemiro

Pukemiro Coal mining settlement.

I was born in Ngaruawahia New Zealand on May 7th 1946. My first memories are from this village of Pukemiro. This is the story of how a coal miners son has spent his life.

In theory if you looked at my early life I should have been a failure as I came from a very restricted background. However I came from a very loving family who gave me and my brother everything they could.

This township of Pukemiro, ...

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Reasons for being in business.

Small business advice is often hard to give and even harder to take. All logic seems to fly out the window when a good idea surfaces.
Passion and desire becomes the only consideration.
If we just stop and think for a moment where technology has taken us over the last few years maybe we could look at it in a slightly different way.

Business really is about providing solutions to problems. Maybe that is where the inventor comes into the equation. ...

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