Early Days
| AVING had a brief but painful encounter with New Zealand history in my schooldays-chiefly owing to a régrettable inability to keep historical facts in their chronological order and to spell Maori names with any sort of con-sistency-I find Douglas Cresswell’s talks on this subject particularly interesting. In the first three of his series on Early Days on Banks Peninsula there is alréady enough material to provide episodes for the most exciting serial-‘goodies" and "baddies," blood and thunder, massacre and exploration. Ail Mr. Cresswell’s talks are delivered with that intense personal interest which he somehow manages to convey to his listeners, One feels that even if he had been there, he could not have done more justice to this battle og that landing. So I forgot New Zealahd’s early struggles-and mine-with Maori chiefs and administration, and simply listened to a story that. sounds chaotic enough in its development, but somehow manages to take on a definite direction. Which was more than my historical studies: ever contrived to do.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 8
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169Early Days New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 8
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