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    Jim Mottram 1934-2019

    Jan 23, 2020 4 minutes

    I was reacquainted with Jim last summer when he parked his mobility scooter under the dinghy rack at the sailing club. Unable to get our boat down, I went looking for the scooter owner and was surprised to discover it was PBO contributor Jim Mottram who I’d interviewed 15 years earlier for a feature on Christchurch.

    With considerable effort – he wasn’t in the best of health – Jim had rowed out to his Elizabethan 23, , only to find he’d forgotten his keys. He was too tired to try again, but said the trip hadn’t been wasted as he’d met me and he had a ‘few things

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