A LITERARY TREASURE
(By Sally Forth in June “Aussie.”) Quite recently 1 spent a fruitful luilf-lmur in the quaint little library at Hokitika. T found the librarian to be an elderly gentleman, surprised in tile extreme to discover anyone who was sufficiently interested in West Coast history to pore over the dusty files of old Hokitika newspapers.
In the course of our conversation lie produced a well-preserved volume which proved to be a complete manuscript record of all the ships entering and departing from the port of Hokitika during ttio Hold boom of the ’sixties—time when the now sleepy little town contained forty thousand diggers. Tt had been presented to him by a one-time harbourmaster. lAA’liy, oh. why. 'is such a volume allowed to lie loose in Hokitika? Its home should bo in our magnificent Turnbull Library; and I, for one. will never be happy until I know it is preserved for all time in a five-proof vault.
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1927, Page 1
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158A LITERARY TREASURE Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1927, Page 1
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