SENSE OF HISTORY
LACK IN NEW ZEALAND
“The lack of .any sense of history in New Zealand” was lamented 1 by Mr. O. N. .Gillespie in an address on that subject at the Wellington Rotary Club. Mr. Gillespie thought that that lack was an extraordinary thing, because there was a written record of the whole of New Zealand’s colourful history, consisting of the letters, memoirs, and books published about New Zealand over the last hundred years. The early settlers, he said, were very articulate, and from their writings it was possible to obtain an accurate idea of every phase of life in the formation of the Dominion. In .the Turnbull Library alone there were 30,000 books and' numerous letters relating to New Zealand. Various phases of the colonisation of the Dominion and some of its achievements were touched upon by Mr. Gillespie.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 25 August 1939, Page 14
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142SENSE OF HISTORY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 25 August 1939, Page 14
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