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Jason Whiteley

I grew up in the western suburbs of Christchurch. When I was two my parents designed and built a four-bedroom house and have lived there ever since. My father ran a manufacturing company that originally did heavy contract engineering, then switched to exporting marine propulsion systems. The company had a big industrial site near the Addington Raceway, a triangle of land bisected by the railway line that runs from the wharves of Lyttleton out West to Rolleston and then South to Timaru. My brother and I would play there on

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