FLAPDOODLE
Sir,-Re your review of a book cailed Wayleggo, by Peter Newton, who worked for 20 years on high country sheep stations. You have hedged from the start in covering up your ignorance of the subject matter of this book. You use few words relating to the book, but ‘a lot about other people and some about yourself. Your few grudging words of praise ate completely counteracted by innuendo in the following words: "Mr,
Newton does not quite succeed in being entirely direct and simple, which is of course, another way of saying that he has not quite reached reality and truth." These are your own words, I have had experience of the high country life, and I can say that in Mr. Newton’s book there is no unreality and no straying from the truth. Every character described is real and every name mentioned both of people and places, as is also every incident. All the people he mentions are well known in the high country. Your learned flapdoodle about
nothing misses fire.
R.
OBERY
(Rangiora).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 452, 20 February 1948, Page 5
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176FLAPDOODLE New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 452, 20 February 1948, Page 5
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