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  • The Shed

    FROM TRASH TO TREASURE

    Aug 10, 2018 4 minutes
    By Sue Allison
    Photographs: Juliet Nicholas

    The West Coast has a history as rich as it is rugged, with a past steeped in mining, logging, and dairy farming on a forest-clad strip between the mountains and the sea. Up by Hokitika airport is a sheddies’ paradise, where relics from this past are being resurrected by an enthusiastic and capable band of volunteers.

    “It all started back in 1981. Everything was going by train out to scrap so we formed a club to stop it,” says Mort Cruickshank. The “we” he refers to were four young men — Spike Jones, Jim Staton, Mike Rooney, and

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