THAT DREADFUL RANGER!
To the Editor
Sin, —As the word "ranger" is a pefc title in New Zealand for persona holding various kinds of offices, perhaps the following definition of the word, copied verbatim from the Library Dictionary of the English language may not be out of placo : " Ranger—One who ranges or wanders ; a mounted trooper sent on exploring or foraging expeditions; a robber; a marauder; a dog that beats the ground for game; a keeper of a park or forest, usually of a deer park or royal forest."
Now, sir, with all due humility and respect for your high-sounding titles, I think it would be plainer and mere euggestive of the destructive kind of occupation or calling if a road keeper was called a way warden; a ranger for schools a truant hunter; and a ranger for the Acclimatisation Society a gamekeeper• Hoping my suggestions may not be considered pieniftture,—l am, etc.,
A NEW CHUM,
p,S,—I also think some appellation ie necessary to distinguish a dog ranger from a dog—vide report County Council meeting in The Mail.—N.C.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 435, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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178THAT DREADFUL RANGER! Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 435, 21 September 1880, Page 2
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