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KIWIS PICK UP SLACK ON PRIVATE TRACKS

AS WITH MOST in the tourism sector, Shaun Monk experienced some “nervy” times in 2020.

Shortly before the country plunged into lockdown, he threw in his “one-hundred-and-something thousand dollar” a year job to guide hunters around the 7000ha Island Hills Station in North Canterbury. Business had been good – until it wasn’t.

“I had clients booked from overseas, as well as Kiwis in the hunting

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