N.Z. WRITERS
FACING A GOOD PERIOD GROWTH OF NATIONAL SPIRIT That New Zealand writers were now giving this Dominion a literature of its own, was a statement made by Dr. I. A. Gordon, Professor of English at Victoria University College, who visited Invercargill on his Dominionwide survey of the teaching of English in post-primary schools. He said that New Zealand, like America, had sought all inspiration from England during its colonial period, but since 1920 New Zealand literature had almost re-created itself. With the development of a national spirit the Dominion’s literature was facing a good period.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3247, 2 April 1943, Page 6
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97N.Z. WRITERS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3247, 2 April 1943, Page 6
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