In early days social life at Taikorea included outdoor bowls and indoor bowls. Bowling green on Keith’s farm.

Indoor bowling involved other rural communities. Also table tennis.

Neighbours helped each other e.g hay making and machinery.

Active church and Sunday school

Keith’s grandfather, Ted Print, was farming in the area since 1908.

Pakehas, no Maori.Has contact with distant relations in England. Family history goes back to pre 1840s.

Family reunion in 1990. 450 Hunt family attended.

Interest in travel started in 1963 with holiday in Australia. Worked in England. Large arable farms and class system.

Travelled to USA. 90 day Greyhound bus pass. Went to Canada then Wales and Scotland.

Returned to NZ married Raewyn in 1976 and purchased farm from his father in 1978 and built house 1980