VOLKNER'S MARTYRDOM
Sir-A statement having been made ina recent Listener letter that Carl Volkner was killed and eaten, it may be as well to point out that in his martyrdom there is no evidence of cannibalism, His headless body lies beneath the chancel of the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr at Opotiki. While writing, may I suggest that the original query with regard to Whangarei Was not as to the correct pronunciation of its present spelling, but whether, in view of the earliest recorded pronunciation of the name its spelling was not arbitrarily fixed. In Arrowsmith’s 1841 map of New Zealand the spelling is in accordance with the way the early missionaries quite evidently heard it pro-nounced-W angari.
A.H.
R.
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 411, 9 May 1947, Page 5
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122VOLKNER'S MARTYRDOM New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 411, 9 May 1947, Page 5
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