In 1973 Alan Wilkes was out with his Labrador Zara and comrades at the opening of the duck shooting season.
In this story from the archives of Spectrum, a long-running RNZ documentary programme, producer Jack Perkins records a slice of life in the maimai with Alan on Kohangatera, a network of lagoons along the Palliser Bay coast.
Join Alan Wilkes and Jack Perkins on the opening day of duck shooting 50 years ago
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