Southern Statues part two…
Although we all know Keith as a sport commentator for nearly 50 years, there’s much more to him than sports. He collects memorabilia and books related to the Beatles, loves to travel to mystical places and has a secret addiction – ice cream! In addition, he loves writing. And with 16 books to his credit, penning a column for NZTODAY is a great fit for him. Hopefully Keith will be spinning many more yarns as he travels around New Zealand and the world.
In my most recent column in NZToday I wrote of a drive my wife and I had made during the 2019 winter, travelling from Wellington to Auckland and back to Wellington. It was mostly to see family and friends, but along the way, at my instigation, we stopped at various towns that I had previously indentified as having statues in their streets honouring their most famous home-grown male or female sports stars.
I framed an idea to create a fun column to write. As we journeyed along I snapped shots of sculptures representing stars like Sir Colin Meads (in Te Kuiti), Sir John Walker (in Manurewa) and Sir Michael Jones (in Auckland). And there were a number of others, enough for the magazine to publish eight in all. Other statues
