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New Zealand: free from the virus

It’s hard not to be envious of New Zealand. While other parts of the world – Australia, the UK and the USA in particular – are suffering from the virus, New Zealand seems hardly to feel the effects at all. The Murdoch virus, that is. By a lucky series of incidents New Zealand – once horribly infested by the Murdoch virus, which then mutated transactionally into a slightly milder case of Nine disease – is now practically Murdoch-free, and has also survived its Nine infection. The symptoms of Murdoch virus are well known. It’s a parasitic…

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Marie Byles; Zen, mountains and the law

A few years ago a young man offered me some photographic negatives and magic lantern slides for sale. When I looked at them, they were mostly of New Zealand subjects which at that stage were of limited interest to me. The young man, however, was very keen to sell, so we struck a bargain and he went his way. When I took the photographs home I took the names of the places on the manila envelopes in which some of the negatives were filed and searched them online, along with my estimated dates and with the…

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