Country Calendar: Tim Wallis (1987)
From the website NZOnScreen: ""Another adventure with Tim" is how one of Tim Wallis’ friends wryly puts it. The "adventure" came about when Wallis combined an “expensive toy”, and a noxious pest: using helicopters to recover deer shot by hunters in inaccessible South Island backblocks. Next deer were captured alive, to stock deer farms; a multi-million dollar industry was born. At the peak of his operations, Wallis had a fleet of 35 helicopters. The aerial shots in and around Milford Sound are magnificent. The stories he tells of his many crashes are 'she'll be right' Boy's Own classics."
This was recorded from New Zealand television by my mother in the late 1980s and has been transferred from VHS so please excuse any audio or video quality issues.
In memory of Sir Timothy William Wallis (9 September 1938 – 17 October 2023).
