Fifty Years Ago
IVE minutes is not too long a time to spend each day in contemplation of the past, particularly of the past that has a bearing upon our present, I am hoping to be a constant listener to the new series from 2YA To-day in N.Z. History, which aims at providing a significant date to console us for the everydayness of every day. The series began last Friday with "First-Footing on the Tasman Glacier’ and related the ex-
ploit of Von Haast and his son-in-law Dobson, the first white men to set foot on the Tasman Glacier, on April 1, 1862. This was followed by a brief summary of Von Haast’s career, a few general remarks on the hill-country by
farmers of the period (including a quotation from Samuel Butler), and finally a few remarks on the Tasman Glacier to-day, eliciting by implication our gratitude to the discoverers. Saturday featured an earlier April 2’s Siege of Orakau, Sunday led us to take a glimpse of the country’s early surveying problems, and the career of John Turnbull Thomson, to whom Southland owes. its Oxburn, Pigburn, and Cockburn, »names put forward in a moment of pique by the surveyor when the Council rejected his list of euphonious Maori names as too hard to pronounce. The columns so beloved of daily papers "Fifty Years Ago in the Clarion" are justly popular with readers. To-day in N.Z. History, with its wider field to draw from and a conscientious and scholarly approach by its compilers, should be both popular and profitable listening.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 8
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259Fifty Years Ago New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 512, 14 April 1949, Page 8
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