Peter Bills, writing for the New Zealand Herald, talks to former All Blacks captain Sir Wilson Whineray about his astonishing life.
"He still remembers, as a 5-year-old dressed in his Sunday best, being taken to Queen St to watch the troops marching down to the harbour, on their way to war in 1940.
Flags were waved, and the crowds cheered. And they went again, to watch the boys when they were coming home.
"Of course" says Sir Wilson Whineray, "what you didn't realise as a 5-year-old was, the lines going down were longer than the lines coming back.""
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