On Radio NZ Teisberg understanding of the rules was that the length of the cut wood was based on the circumference of the stump not the width. That's a major piece of misinformation being fed to him as the buyer by the seller.

Colin should try standing on Rangitoto on a summers day.... Beats asphalt hands down.

According to this story Bess came back.

This is in Cambridge. Nothing glorious about this ANZAC. Yet it probably refelcted more accurately the feeling of the families left behind.

I have taken my son since he inherited his Koro's medals. It's nothing to do with glorifying war, it's about honouring the effort and loss made by a couple of generations.