Matthew Littlewood
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Reporter, wanderer and cricket/music/cinema obsessive. Here because everyone else seems to be!
Reposted by Matthew Littlewood
Locals did not like Morrieson’s fictional yet highly accurate depiction of their sad grubby depraved little lives. So much so that — despite being the most famous and talented person to ever come from Hāwera and one of NZ’s most successful writers — they knocked his house down to build a KFC.
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November 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Locals did not like Morrieson’s fictional yet highly accurate depiction of their sad grubby depraved little lives. So much so that — despite being the most famous and talented person to ever come from Hāwera and one of NZ’s most successful writers — they knocked his house down to build a KFC.
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(Don’t want to pay to read it) I’m guessing his argument is that doctors, firefighters, nurses, teachers are the “wrong” sort of strikers and unions? And that unions were more manly in his day?
October 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
(Don’t want to pay to read it) I’m guessing his argument is that doctors, firefighters, nurses, teachers are the “wrong” sort of strikers and unions? And that unions were more manly in his day?