Launched this weekend, Focused: A Life Behind The Lens, is a retrospective of Jaquiery's long career documenting life in Otago. Focused: A Life Behind The Lens ($40 for ODT subscribers and $45 for non-subscribers), is available at the Home & Living Show at Forsyth Barr Stadium this weekend. By 1981, he was working for the Otago Daily Times full-time. Former colleagues believe it is Mr Smart pictured paddling on the far side of the dinghy, dressed in a light top and dark trousers. Mr Smart, who still lives in Invercargill, says if the Waihopai River had burst its banks at night, lives would undoubtedly have been lost.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 01, 2019 14:37 UTC