Saturday, November 04, 2006

The Hillsborough Hugh Hefner.

We were checking out the hot springs on our bikes the other day and got chatting to this older NZ guy who turned out to be one of the hardest case blokes I've met in a long time. He was especially pleased that Q had grown up in Hillsborough because he built his first house there in 77... then apparently had the pick of the women because it had a pool and a pool room and a bar, and he was quite the catch. He sold it some time in the eighties, then happened upon it by chance 22 years later and decided to buy it back off the Irish family he sold it to.

Some of his other claims to fame: having been travelling around for 2 years to date, having opened up the first massage parlour in Auckland (The Japanese Bath house anyone?), buying and selling a deer farm, a golf course... anyway, he was a character. A real player. And apparently used to be known as the Hillsborough Hugh Hefner. Nice.

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