BOB BOOK03 ISBN 9780473170974; this a5 sized soft covered book written, then totally and solely produced by myself (Bob Simmonds) contains 216 pages with 106,495 words and numerous illustrations about the trials and tribulations of coping with a family, staff, office based bosses, that now held the stick of authority over me. While at the same time satisfy the demands of thousands of head of livestock, while being able to accept the challenges of life in general. It was indeed a marvellous period of our lives 1973 to 1985, and strangely enough the only two private farms I worked on were the first and last. The others were all Government farms belonging to the Lands & Survey & Maori Affairs Departments of the day, and after reading these books, some could probably be forgiven for thinking I had deliberately omitted the time I had spent on the central North Island prison farms, but I was never there in any capacity.