ReadingRoom One of the great Māori-Pākehā love stories Chrischurch, 1972. I'm with husband Denis McCauley at a party with Mongrel Mob connections. There's more drinking than conversation. We're standing beside a table and a youngster with flowing black hair is hiding underneath in order, we are told, to avoid the gang initiation ritual of sculling beer from a gumboot. He's not a joining kind of person and, besides, the gumboot is his own and disgusting - he has weedy feet. My first meeting with Pat Hammond.

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