Back in the 1970's when my dad had just started at a much, much different Maungatapere School, the field was being extended. When the school bought the land from the Northland Dairy Company, my poppa helped with the hoeing and the grubbing to make the field flat.
When the field had been finished, there were trees to be planted. My poppa grew all the shelterbelt trees from seed. The trees had been grown in our nursery at Redwood Orchard.
Later Poppa became the school groundsman and he looked after the field, the trees and the swimming pool. He made sure that the pool was clean enough to swim in and that the school had no litter in its grounds.
Poppa mowed the all of the open areas on his tractor-mower , while my dad used the school's ride-on mower for around the trees and buildings.
By Sasha
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