A HUSH VALLEY FIFTY YEARS AGO
TO THE IiDITOR OF THE PIIBSS. Sir,—l expect my badly-written letters to be misprinted ("dialectic" for "devotional") and to be misunderstood, as "Birtllover" has misunderstood. It was my luck to live alongside a patch of native bush in my young days, and, boy-like, I looked upon the birds as marks for my skill with the bow and arrow and catapult. I was born with a strong strain of the hunter in me; but there were some birds that we boys decided it was unsportsmanlike to shoot at. Yes, and there was mountain air, too. The mouth of the Clarence Valley is a crack in Creation (I don't know what is the best adjective to use), an amphitheatre of hills and mountains, the hills rising up from the sea and the mountains culminating in the second highest in New Zealand. I would like to tell "Birdlover" that I have grown less bloodthirsty.— Yours, etc., PETER TROLOVE. March .11, 1935.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21420, 12 March 1935, Page 7
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