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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 4 (August 1, 1929)

The Goat and the Blackberry Bush

The Goat and the Blackberry Bush.

In a note at the end of his journal and report, Mr. Brunner expressed the opinion that the introduction of goats would be a benefit to the Maoris along the West Coast. His remark was in a way prophetic, for are not goats recommended for Westland to-day? Not indeed for the natives, who are very few in the land—it is difficult to find them—but to deal with that notorious blackberry bush, which, as all truthful page 37 Coasters will tell you, is just one patch, only, unfortunately, it is two hundred miles long!