I spent my childhood in Wanganui, at Christmas time we went to Wellsford farm where my mother's family lived.
On Christmas Eve 1953 my mother Jessie Feeney was doing wages in the city, she worked
The wreckage of the ill-fated train at Tangiwai, which crashed into the Whangaehu River on Christmas Eve, 1953. Photo / File
I spent my childhood in Wanganui, at Christmas time we went to Wellsford farm where my mother's family lived.
On Christmas Eve 1953 my mother Jessie Feeney was doing wages in the city, she worked
'Instead of impacting your wallet, in the long run it's going to end up benefiting you.'