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Two contrasting lives

Their paths may not have crossed. But you could imagine that in one of his satirical interviews, John Clarke would have been a good match with the patrician Sir Douglas Myers cast as a dodgy businessman.

Nevil Gibson
Sun, 16 Apr 2017

The loss of two great New Zealanders in a single week gives pause to reflect on their vastly differing contributions.

Beer baron-turned-philanthropist Douglas Myers was born into an already commercially successful family and built on top of that sufficiently to be honoured with a knighthood in

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Nevil Gibson
Sun, 16 Apr 2017
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