Ex-Southlander Martin Mason is one of the oldest on the six-day Southland-Otago Axemen's Association Christmas Circuit, which ends at Tuatapere on Wednesday. Mason made a comeback to wood chopping after a 12-month break, at Gore on Saturday. Kavinda Herath/Stuff Martin Mason, of Christchurch, competed in the Gore round of the Southland-Otago Axemen's Christmas Circuit on Saturday. Wood chopping and sawing was a heritage sport and would survive well into the future, he said. Kavinda Herath/Stuff Martin Mason, 74, has been competing on the Southland-Otago Axemen's Christmas Circuit for 50 years.

Source: Stuff December 29, 2019 00:33 UTC