TWO "LAST WORDS"
To the Editor, "The Listener" Sir-Would you allow me the privilege of ‘two "Jast words" in connection with the "Meet the Ladies" write-up last week? Regarding the statement that I was the first woman in New Zealand to do general reporting on a metropolitan daily paper, I would like to make it clear that several others have done this class of work, but I was, so far as I know, the first and only woman engaged exclusively in general reporting on the staff of a city daily, and admitted to membership as a reporter in the Journalists’ Union, The reference to my ride down "the little-known Hollyford Valley" might lead to complications with my Southland friends, who are justly proud of the world-fame that the Hollyford Valley has achieved within the last few years! The ride in question was down the Lower Hollyford-a very different proposition! When we made the trip three or four years ago, we found at the Pyke River Hut a note left there nearly three months before by a couple of marooned trampers-nobody had visited the hut in all that time, and I think our two parties were the only ones that did the Lower Hollyford that summer,
The Upper Hollyford, which is, of course, the outstanding feature of the new Milford road, is a very different proposition-at the present time, I should imagine one could hardly see the road for the cars! I am, etc.,
ELSIE K.
MORTON
Auckland, December 20, 1939.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 11
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250TWO "LAST WORDS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 11
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