Let’s Go… the New Zealand countryside circa 1960
“Bit of bad news, you chaps. No use beating about the bush, Jock’s gone.” “Gone?” echoed Simon. “Gone where?” For a moment Jim wondered exactly where, then put the unseemly speculation aside and said, “Sorry, Simon, but there it is. I mean — he’s dead.”
The chaps are farmer Simon Hawkins and his shepherd Albert Winter, viewed by the district as being obsessed with finding a cure for bloat, and shifty, respectively. The messenger is farmer Jim Middleton, “an honest trader”.
He has interrupted Simon and Albert at the sheep yards to inform them that Simon’s uncle Jock has had his skull crushed over on
