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Excerpt from Days With the Old Force, From: Recollections and Reflections of an Old New Zealander
I first went into an office when I was fourteen, and spent some years cooped up there. The latter part of the time I was in a law office, and I pined for the wilds. Office life I hated heartily, for I was never happy unless out in the bush or the wilds, so there came a time when I took a step I never for a moment regretted.
An outbreak of trouble with the Maoris in Taranaki and a rushing of troops to the Front created the occasion of a chance for something more to my liking, and I promptly seized upon it. One morning I went to the office as usual and set to work, but about eleven o'clock some news came of the Maori disturbances and the ur gent despatch of troops. I turned the key of my room at the office and went out to enquire, and I never went back, for within an hour I had joined the Force. 1. Still have and treasure that key as an emblem of my escape to the open.
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