Early Trading
FTER a short time in Auckland the family trekked northward, taking up land in a district rich in kauri gum, if in nothing else. So my grandfather was seized with the bright idea of doing some trading in gum as a profitable sideline to the precarious farming of those early days, All went swimmingly for’a while. The Maoris brought quantities of gum, and the nucleus of a promising business seemed to be established, But alas for all human endeavour! The gum store possessed two doors. The back door was not strongly bolted, if indeed it was bolted at all, and it was finally discovered that the untutored natives were deftly removing the gum from the back and re-selling it in front. What chance was there of amassing a fortune for people who were not only guilty of such contributory negligence, but who could also retail the story years afterwards amid gales of appreciative enjoyment of the way in which they had been outwitted by the simple savages?-(" Colonial Odyssey." Miss Cecil Hull, 1Y A, February 2.) Warning to Letter-Writers A FEW weeks-ago the Censorship authorities in one New Zealand city intercepted a letter from a girl to a soldier in the Middle East. It was the usual chatty sort of letter that a girl might be expected to write to a soldier overseas, but part of the chatty correspondence was distinctly dangerous. One page contained a detailed and fairly accurate account of recent movements by ships of the Royal New Zealand Navy. And then, in the very next sentence, the girl informed her soldier friend: "We are having a ‘Don’t Talk’ Campaign over here." We have quoted this case because it is typical of the thoughtlessness and ‘irresponsibility of hundreds of New Zealanders. They are decent, respectable, loyal’ people, and they would be extremely indignant if you were to accuse them of being Fifth Columnists. Yet, unconsciously, that is exactly what they are.- (" Don’t Write: A Warning to Correspondents," 2YA, February 16.) :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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334Early Trading New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 141, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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