TY - BOOK AU - Crump, Barry, TI - Wild pork and watercress SN - 0908676093 AV - PR9691.C956W56 1986 U1 - NZ823.2 19 PY - 1986/// CY - Auckland, N.Z. PB - Beckett KW - Maori (New Zealand people) KW - Fiction KW - Pakiwaitara KW - reo KW - New Zealand fiction KW - 20th century N1 - Novel; The title is printed at head of contents page and omitted from t.p. Reprinted 1987 with t.p. reset to include title N2 - Young Ricky and his Uncle Hec flee to the Ureweras when Social Welfare threatens to put him into a home, following the death of his beloved Aunt Bella. Uncle Hec and Ricky use all their skills to survive in the hard world of precipitous hills and impassable forest. Ricky, the young misfit, rapidly rise to maturity as he is faced with the uncompromising nature of the New Zealand bush and cruel attempts of authorities to bring him and his uncle to justice. Slowly, love and trust begins to mature, between two loners in a hard world ER -