GREG DIXON
It’s a long way from Lush Places to the Pongaroa Hotel. But it’s even further if I’m the one driving you there. We had had an excellent idea: wouldn’t it be fun to drive to Pongaroa –a village of some 100 people in the backblocks of Tararua district –for lunch at the Pongaroa Hotel, a country watering hole that’s been licensed to slake thirsts since the Year of