Roots in Our Soil
F we are to develop a sense history, if we are to confute the fre-quently-made accusation that we in New Zealand are. members of a_ rootless society, swayed about and even uprooted like pinus insignis by blasts of culture from overseas, we need more and more talks like those of Douglas Cresswell, whose new series More Historic New Zealand Estates has just started from 2YA. Recently Mr. Cresswell dealt with the Teschemakers of Otaio, going right back to the Elizabethans and the Duke of Alba to disentangle his first rodtlet, and taking a long detour through Dutch Guiana before allowing it to establish itself in New Zealand. Mr. Cresswell’s talks have a gossipy informality that makes their details stick. We will probably remember the picture of Granny Teschemaker at 80 cracking her ninefoot stock whip, and it is difficult to forget John Rutherford’s horse Otaio, who habitually carried John Rutherford’s 20 stone. But I hope we will remember Mr. Cresswell’s interposed lament "So much of New Zealand’s early history is being lost" and do what we can to counteract this process of his- | torical erosion.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 8
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189Roots in Our Soil New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 405, 28 March 1947, Page 8
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