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May 2015

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Photo;Ben Arthur
Many laughed at Tom O’Brien when he said he’d build 27km of track through iconic Otago landscape using just a pick and shovel. But two years of hard slog have silenced his critics. Matthew Pike checks out his handy work What’s that in front of me? I don’t believe it, it’s the sun – I […]
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