HENDRIK VAN LOON
Sir,--You are in part right, and in part wrong, in your article about Hendrik Van Loon. He did come to New Zealand on a luxury liner-there was a time when luxury liners came here-~ so far you were right. You say, however, that if he did land in New Zealand he remained incognito. In that you. are wrong. He did land, and in Auckland he gave two lectures, one in the University College Hall, the other in the Town Hall, and there must be many others who like myself attended those lectures and remember them. I do not remember the dates or the titles of the lectures, am not sure they had one, but I do remember the lecturer. He looked, dressed, and talked not at all as one expected of a traveller on a luxury liner. He talked much in the same way as he wrote, and I am sure that his addresses were a delight, as well as an education, to all who heard them.
TOM
BLOODWORTH
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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173HENDRIK VAN LOON New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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